Battery Inspection Issues

Asked by Guru9TH7VN Mar 23, 2021 at 12:22 PM about the 2007 Pontiac G6 Base

Question type: General

My car can’t be registered until it passes inspection
according to the DMV, and the car has battery draw
issues I can’t afford to diagnosis and fix at the
moment until I can get my car inspected and
registered and start working again. The battery died
and was taken out and placed on a charger, but
since there is a draw it still dies very frequently and
requires a jump. The car can’t pass inspection until
I drive around 50 more miles with it. How am I
supposed to drive 50 miles in a car with no
inspection and no registration, and if the battery
ends up dying in between those miles and needing
jumped again, will that reset it and require me to
start over with 50-60 more miles?

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taver91 answered 3 years ago

Treat it like an emergency and pull the fuse for the circuit causing the drain. Do this by putting a meter in line with the positive battery terminal and, with the car off, determine that current is flowing. Then begin removing fuses one by one until the current stops flowing, You have now isolated your problem circuit. Leave that fuse out and then run your 50 miles, get the car registered and then go back and find the drain in that circuit.

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