Date: 17 Mar 2003 15:01:45 -0800 From: alyoungnopsammarble.net (Amy Young-Leith) Subject: 1989 has battery drain
I few weeks ago I bought a 1989 900 (non-turbo). It's a POS with over 225k, but looks great and is fun to drive. I paid diddly for it so I figured if I had to tinker with it... well, it would be a challenge. I seem to have a power short somewhere. The battery will be DEAD, and it'll jump start just fine, and charge the battery up enough to start again if you shut it off. But overnight, it drains back down to zilch. This happened once when I first got it... then didn't happen for a while, and now is happening all the time. My first thought is to replace the battery, but a few people have said that since it'll charge back up, they don't think that's it. It had a new alternator on it about a year ago. The answer may be that I have to take it into a professional, but that'll have to wait a while. Anything a handy but car-dumb person can do to self diagnose? Amy