Battery drain
Asked by Menezes Sep 13, 2015 at 12:07 PM about the 1999 Lincoln Continental
Question type: Maintenance & Repair
I have had the alt bench tested ...ok Had battery tested...ok Checked fuses with multi meter found radio was bad fuse. Removed fuse. Still have draw draining battery overnight. Any ideas ?
5 Answers
Take the meter you have and you will need to test each circuit in the fuse panel to see which circuit is drawing power..
RayinRaleigh answered 7 years ago
Might be the ignition switch. The battery in my 2002 model kept draining, mechanics couldn't ID the problem due to it being some intermittent thing. Yesterday I took my key out of ignition switch and the chime still went off when I opened the door (as if key was still in switch). I noticed that if I pushed up on the switch where key is inserted the chiming would go away. I took a strong rubber band and rigged it to pull up on the switch. Battery stayed charged through the night and much of today whereas before it would very likely be dead over this period of time. Being I just figured this out yesterday I'm not yet confident this is the cause. Fingers crossed. I hope this helps someone out.
I have a 2001 Lincoln continental. I purchased it in 2003. It also has a slow draw. New battery, altinator, recent tune up. Tester shows up nothing wrong with car, Before I go pulling every fuze, can anyone tell me of a relay or... that is common to go bad and cause a slow draw. Thank you all, Ronald
It sounds like a bad door switch. Located inside the door.
Thank you for the suggestion. I do appreciate your time and interest. I ended up taking it to an auto electric tech and he tore out the front dash and so on and found a bad something and now it can sit for months and starts right up.. New problem. I was suckered by the seller. I purchased a 2004 PT Cruiser, 2.4 turbo, it had 93,000 miles on it and looked great. Within a week it started showing codes and running terrible. I ended up spending nearly $2,000 for new computer and relays and on and on. After all that, now it’s leakong oil from the rear of the engine, and the rail pipe shows wet oil. I can’t gind the leak even with using dye. I assume the engine is just junk with bad rings, I don’t know. Other than being lied to by this joker Steve guy. Is there any product that could help seal the rings so I can use it for awhile before just junking it out or sell it the the perfect exterior and interior or out in a V8 kit. Seems that now days the small engines are just crap. I will forever now stick to big block V8s. Thanks Ron Semper_familia@earthlink.net
