Ok well my car got taken away for about 3 days and the battery has been dying if it sits for a few days. Well i go to get it out since i got it back and it was dead like it does. So i try jumping it and boom there goes a fuse well I got tired of it cause it was dark so my mom called my uncle (dealer) and they tried blaming my car dieing on my radar detector. So i was j/w what fuse would've done this and is there a diagram to make it faster cause i'm going to stop in before school to try to get it going so a heads up would help.

 

The first thing that would help would be proof reading, no offense. And puctuation. Radar detector can do it if left on.

 

better? but it's also done it after a night

 

No offense, but check your spelling first.

 

is your radar detector hooked up to the battery or just in a cigarrete lighter socket?
if its hooked up via socket then it is not your radar detector...

take the battery out of the car, drive to autozone (obviously with a diff car) and let them charge the battery for an hour, put it back in.... see if it does the same thing the next day.

If yes, your altenator could have problems, or you could have a bad cell in your battery and you will need a new one.

good luck

 

Yea good job correcting someone and failing

 

and replace whatever fuse you blew

dunno how you accomplished that trick.

 

Hooked up - to + or + to - maybe? I've seen a lot more damage when that has been done before....

-Karo

 

That is probably what happened. I cannot think of any other way. Replace the blown fuse and hook it up right the next time and you will be good to go.

 

I read that so fast I saw "Take your car and drive it off a cliff", thinking his "puctuation" wasn't that bad lol.

How so? The cig. lighter port stays powered on when you turn the car off... Ive accidentally left my radar detector plugged in while Im at work (12 hours) and when I came out it was still on.... It would have to be sucking down a LOT of juice to drain the battery in 3 days though - radar detectors don't take much power.

 

Update: it wasn't a fuse it was some bull with the battery cables. It (radar detector) is plugged into the cig. lighter. My dad and i think it's a bad ground cause i get shocked when i get done driving and shut the door i thought it was static at first but it keeps getting worse and happens all of the time.

 

It's winter and I get shocked every time. Sometimes it hurts.

 

your guys cig lighter ports stay on when the car shuts down???
learn something new everyday. Saab's turn off when the car shuts down, for safety reasons i guess...

 

yea it's weird my friends hyundai shuts off but mine stays on all the time

 

my cig and other one stay on as well when my car is off

 

You can't get shocked from a car battery Lolersauce. You would never feel 12 volts. ANyways, my cables have been known to fall off.

 

...Yes you can definitely feel 12volts. Don't believe me? Put your hands in salt water, (or get your arms really sweaty) then press really hard on the battery terminals and hope you don't die. (If full current passes through your heart a car battery has more than enough amperage to kill you - highly unlikely, but theoretically possible). Its a "mild" shock , but enough to feel.


However, in this case, no the original poster would not feel a shock from the battery - its DC power so he would have to have both ground and positive contact at the same time, and since the car frame is just the ground, he would not get a shock from the battery. What he is feeling getting out of the car is just static electricity.

 

if ur car battery got drained all the way a few times and its cold outside, its most likely history. Cold and dead car battery dont go well together, if thats the case, get a new one before it kills ur altenator.
And i get shocked to whenever i get out of my car, its static, dc voltage would pulse and probably burn a little.

 

thanks guys... i just wish i didn't have these problems with this car so i need a new battery and steering column now what would you recomend for a new battery? My dad says optima is good are they all dry cell?

 

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner.

 

i guess some of these guys dont know if u ground out dc power it would burn the entire wire to a crisp in a few seconds. so its pretty much imposible to be getting a shock from it.

For all those who dont believe me, try putting a metal hanger between the + and - termenal of ur battery. lol see if it doesnt burn right through ur hand.

 

DC doesn't pulse.... But, I don't think in any way you would feel a car battery. I play with live high voltages all day long and 4,000 volts is just a nip... i don't see how 12 volts would be detectable.

 

it doesnt pulse more as tingles, iv got a good zap from a dc gerarator, and it hurts like hell. and if u ground out the positive of a 12v batt it will burn red hot, so u will get a bad bad burn.

 

If you have access to a multimeter, measure the resistance between the tips of your right and left index fingers. Then measure the resistance of a coat hanger from one end to the other. Record the results. Now put your index fingers on the positive and negative posts of a car battery. Record the results. (There won't be any). Now put on some eye protection and gloves and carefully put the coat hanger between the battery posts. You have just had lesson #1 of "OHMS LAW". E=IxR E being the VOLTAGE applied. I being the CURRENT generated and R being the resistance, or LOAD. In essence the bigger the load "resistance" the lower the "current". Now repeat after me. "A 12 volt battery will NOT hurt me".

To find if there is a load on the electricle system, remove the neg cable from the barrery and put a test light between the batteries negative post and the cable. If the light lights you have a DRAW NOT A SHORT on the system. You can then remove one fuse at a time till the DRAW goes away. BINGO! You found the system the problem is in.

OR! You could just take it to the dealer and pay $100 an hour to have them do just what I told you to do.

 

get a new battery