Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Asked by Ingrid on October 22, 2020
When I got to turn the key nothing happens. No lights no clicking no clock no nothing totally dead. It’s a new battery. This is the second time it’s happened within 6 months. Both times the car sat for 2 days without being driven. My mechanic says there is a short but does not have the equipment to figure it out. Any ideas?
If you have no dash lights or interior lights that means that either your battery is dead or there's a break in the electrical circuit required to power your car.
The test you need to do (or have someone else do) is to check the battery voltage. If it is strong, i.e. above 12.5 volts or even just 12 volts then the battery has enough charge to start the car, the problem is the battery connections or a bad connection in the power distribution. Simply cleaning the battery terminals and posts may fix this problem, otherwise someone needs to work their way through the electrical system to find what's gotten loose.
If the battery is discharged, i.e. the voltage is low, then what it means is that something in the car is using energy even when it is sitting. This is called a parasitic battery drain, and they can be a pain. Now, in a modern car there's always something using a bit of power (clocks, alarms) but these things are very miserly. For the battery to drain in 2 days there's 2 categories of problem:
Answered by GdD on October 22, 2020
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