I am at the end of my rope with this car...
please help before I do something crazy like trade it in on an IS250.
Since December, car has been draining the battery at a pretty quick rate. We only drive the car about 10 miles a day, so I think this might not be quite enough to keep the battery charged. After a few poor attempts at diagnosing the car at a mechanic, I finally did some research and realized I needed to take things into my own hands. We finally made the correlation between heavy rain storms and dead batteries.
Weird, but there is definately some water getting into the cabin and the carpet is wet behind the drivers seat and possibly under the driver's seat. I know there's lots of wires and a box under the seat. I researched extensively on the water leak issue with TSXii and could not find a solution. checked sunroof drains and trunk, all seemed fine. opened up door panels and checked the weep holes. all seem fine.
I finally got and figured out how to use a multimeter. amperage was actually at 900-1200 mA.!! yikes. Started pulling fuses in the engine bay, and got it down to 56 mA when I pulled the acc/back-up fuse. I think this fuse actually is the master to the interior fuse box and started pulling fuses from the upper row and worked my way down.
interior light fuse pulled dropped draw down to 356 mA. next fuse over "back up" dropped it down to 56mA. So, i pulled all the lights out of the interior and it still draws ~900mA when I put that fuse in. and i have no idea how to troubleshoot the "back-up" fuse. any guidance or recommendations on what type of shop I should take the car to would be great. i'm :bill: please help
as of now, i've got the draw down to 56mA but don't have interior lights or pretty much anything else in the interior. nav,remote,dash lights, etc don't work because of the "back up" fuse being pulled.
please help before I do something crazy like trade it in on an IS250.
Since December, car has been draining the battery at a pretty quick rate. We only drive the car about 10 miles a day, so I think this might not be quite enough to keep the battery charged. After a few poor attempts at diagnosing the car at a mechanic, I finally did some research and realized I needed to take things into my own hands. We finally made the correlation between heavy rain storms and dead batteries.
Weird, but there is definately some water getting into the cabin and the carpet is wet behind the drivers seat and possibly under the driver's seat. I know there's lots of wires and a box under the seat. I researched extensively on the water leak issue with TSXii and could not find a solution. checked sunroof drains and trunk, all seemed fine. opened up door panels and checked the weep holes. all seem fine.
I finally got and figured out how to use a multimeter. amperage was actually at 900-1200 mA.!! yikes. Started pulling fuses in the engine bay, and got it down to 56 mA when I pulled the acc/back-up fuse. I think this fuse actually is the master to the interior fuse box and started pulling fuses from the upper row and worked my way down.
interior light fuse pulled dropped draw down to 356 mA. next fuse over "back up" dropped it down to 56mA. So, i pulled all the lights out of the interior and it still draws ~900mA when I put that fuse in. and i have no idea how to troubleshoot the "back-up" fuse. any guidance or recommendations on what type of shop I should take the car to would be great. i'm :bill: please help
as of now, i've got the draw down to 56mA but don't have interior lights or pretty much anything else in the interior. nav,remote,dash lights, etc don't work because of the "back up" fuse being pulled.
