Are you flipping kidding me?!?! Help me figure this out. It's been dead twice this week. Only things done were straight wiring a speaker to the HU. Can that do it?? I took it to have exhaust looked at monday or tuesday. My mechanic (whom I LOVE) was showing me some things under it while the other guy was doing the other job. Anyway he I was asking about the oil level light coming on and if the oil pan was the one I had or not and he touched the sensor and two wires came out so he put them back. Would that do it? I'm at a loss.

 

I'd suspect radio if it had been doing it before now. I had that done sunday. Car cranked fine on monday and tuesday. Tuesday evening (4:30) I just redid that speaker. Wednesday around 2:30 I noticed it was dead. Instead of charging battery, he jumped it. We let it run for a while. Maybe it didn't get fully charged but something killed it again. So 4 pm on wed it was jumped. I didnt drive it yesterday. Noticed it dead again about 11 this morning.

 

May have it figured out. Alternator won't charge a dead battery. Right? So if I jump it, it's still gonna be dead?

 

Got battery on charger now. It was 8.42v Had it to spark on me! This battery stuff scares me and it doesn't look like I'll ever get brave enough to do it myself. Hubby said it's because I had the red thingy in the wrong hole on the voltage tester. Anyway I hope I'm right on this.

 

Yeah I can use the meter as long as someone doesn't put the probes in the wrong place. So u don't think maybe it wasn't charged enough the first time and that was cause. Because if that was the reason for 2nd time, I know why on first one. We got it up to 12.23v and cranked it. I drove it for about 10 miles and it's been sitting. I'll check it in morning.

 

I would take it to your local parts store and have them do a full system test on the car since it's free. This will test the battery, the starter, the alternator (with and without a load on it), and a drain check. Ask for them to print you a slip (I know Advance automatically does this) and see what the voltage and CCA of the battery is. Easiest way to narrow something like this down.

 

The red was in red and black was in black. It has many red ports on it.

 

I didn't know I was Craby now. Lol. But, I only suggest having a parts store doing it because we can go a little more in depth than a simple multi-meter can, not because some one else stuck her positive/negative in the wrong ports. Go a little easy on her because even I screw up sometimes with my multi-meter.

 

I'm sooooo used to that on here lol. I've been using that meter since Feb of 2011 and wasn't paying any attention that someone had played with it. Most likely my 6 year old.

On a side note, was looking at your profile, you're only 19??

 

Which is how it usually goes for me. Someone messes with it without me knowing and I go to use it thinking everything was the way I left it and it's not.

Yup. Haha. Probably one of the youngest members here.