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Looks like I have a short somewhere in the car. I purchased Priority Start but didn't work. I have a Sear's Multi Tester. Will this help me find the short and if so how?
Any info will be appreciated
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I am assumming that you installed a remote starter in your Camaro? Did you somehow mess with or bypass the PASS Key System? Remote starters are not very friendly with a system that has a security ignition key.I used to take hundreds of calls from Ford dealer technicians that were working on a vehicle that had a no start concern.
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No nothing like that . I went away for a couple of days and when I came back the batt was dead. It a 6 mo old battery so that should not have happened. And I have added nada to the car. I purchased Priorty Start form Ecklers. It is a device that monitors the battey and if it reaches a certain level it disconnects so that there is enough juice to strat the car. For some reasomn that did not happen. SO now I am on a search for the short.
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related story - My Sears Die Hard is less than 1 year old. About one month ago, it was just dead, nothing!
I boosted it, and had it tested at Sears. The battery tested 100%, the charging system 100%, and it's been perfect ever since. Nothing was left on - that I could see - it was just dead!
Just a mystery
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Shorts can be tricky. Maybe this will help. If you have a genuine electrical short, get a circuit tester, disconnect the negative battery cable and bridge the tester from the negative post to a vehicle "ground". If the tester lights, you have a short. Start pulling one fuse at a time until the circuit light goes out, and then you've isolated the circuit.
For SS Camaro: You need to get a digital multimeter. Disconnect the negative battery cable. Put a jumper wire between the cable and the battery post. Let the car sit for at least 1 hour to let all of the body modules to power down and go to sleep. Set the meter to the ma scale and turn it on. Connect the meter leads between the battery post and the negative cable end and then remove the jumper wire. Just make sure the doors and hatch was open and the igition was not turned on before installing the meter,or you will have to let the car sit for another hour for the power down cycle.Read the ma reading on the meter. A normal system will draw will be 50ma or less. Anything higher than that and there is a draw. If you use a test light to check the draw,you have no idea how many ma's the system is drawing. If the draw is excessive,fuses should be pulled one at a time and not reinstalled (could wake up the modules) until the draw goes away.
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