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tomskip

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tomskip

tomskip

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Hello good people, I am looking for a garage who can find out why my car keeps draining the battery. I need someone who can do proper diagnostics and not just pat me on the head because I'm a 5'2" older female and tell me I need a new battery or I must have left an internal light on! I've had two new batteries in the car and am absolutely fastidious about turning everything off when I park. I've been driving the car as much as I can during lock down too but, once again, I got in the car recently to an absolutely dead and silent battery. So - there's something wrong in the car and I need it found and fixed!


Which trusty garage or mechanic can I ask please? Maybe someone who specialises in electrics? I'm getting fed up!

ianr

ianr

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I salute your attitude and perseverance and think you're exactly right. I've had a read around myself. This was an entertaining thread https://www.hyundai-forums.com/threads/battery-drain.331282/ which eventually boiled down to the bungled installation of the electrics of a mirror.


It seems to me there's scope for at least simple DIY diagnostics. I'd be thinking of checking the many peripheral circuits going through the two fuse boxes -- there are schematics available -- to see whether there's any substantial static current through any of them. Or are things built nowadays to make them accessible only to special test equipment?

Sue

Sue

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tomskip Wrote:

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I need someone who can do proper

> diagnostics and not just pat me on the head

> because I'm a 5'2" older female and tell me I need

> a new battery or I must have left an internal

> light on



I feel your pain.


I once had to call out my rescue service when the oil light came on.


I was patronisingly told I must have forgotten to top the oil up. When I said that was not the issue, he said "You'd be surprised, it happens all the time."


I pointed out that there was a pool of oil beneath the car.


He said "Well, I couldn't see that from where I was standing."


Things then went from bad to worse .... unfortunately I had to travel back home with him a very long way with my car on the back of his truck 😭


Hope you get things sorted. Electrical faults in cars are a nightmare.

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