I have a red top battery in my 91 CRX. I lost my license so it's been sitting in my garage. I've been doing work on it, so its been started and moved around almost everyday.But I went to start it today and it was dead. Its only been 3-4 days since I last started it. What could cause this? The battery is fairly new. Thanks

 

Have you done a draw test?

 

sounds like your alternator is bad.

 

get a volt meter and try the alternator , could also maybe be a bad ground or a small short somewhere...the ecu throwin any codes and does the battery light come on or stay on

 

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How do I do this? Thanks

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I'll test the alternator and grounds tomorrow. Its below 0 out, so i'll wait.

 

had a yellow top that did the same thing, had it tested and the battery was bad. mine was still under warranty so autozone just swapped it out.

 

Just have your charging system tested at a shop since your not sure on using a voltmeter. They can help you out

 

I have one question for you. were you leaveing a door open over night? Ive done that and discovered that the seatbelts draw power when the door is open

 

You may be starting the car every day. But are you REALLY running it long enough to make up for self-discharge? If the car is not being run sufficienty long to charge the battery, then you might want to put it on a trickle charger.

One more thing. The battery could be bad at this point in time. Lead-acid batteries do not like to sit in a discharged state, and will go bad if this happens for long periods of time. And a load test may not be able to determine a bad battery. It is entirely possible for a bad battery to be able to deliver a high current for a relatively short perod of time, yet go dead in a couple of days OR suffer from low reserve capcity.

 

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I can do it. I just wasn't thinking draw test was the same thing.
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No, they were closed.
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by StorminMatt &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">You may be starting the car every day. But are you REALLY running it long enough to make up for self-discharge? If the car is not being run sufficienty long to charge the battery, then you might want to put it on a trickle charger.

One more thing. The battery could be bad at this point in time. Lead-acid batteries do not like to sit in a discharged state, and will go bad if this happens for long periods of time. And a load test may not be able to determine a bad battery. It is entirely possible for a bad battery to be able to deliver a high current for a relatively short perod of time, yet go dead in a couple of days OR suffer from low reserve capcity.</TD></TR></TABLE>
I'll try trickle charging. The only thing is I don't have the reciept, which sucks.