My Windstar is giving me fits. It recently began to need a jump at about every start. I put a meter on the battery when not running and got a reading of about 10.xx volts. It is the original battery so I replaced it. The newly installed battery reads about 12.5v not running. When checking with the engine running I get about 12.02v. I expected the running read out to be in the 14.v + range. It is with my other vehicles. I ran the system check in the message center, and it says *charging system ok*. It seems to me that something is draining the battery. Short of removing the alternator for diagnostics in a shop, is there anything I can do to check it here? Any ideas what might be going on? Thanks.
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14 years ago