battery drain - 06 'stang

anybuddy else run into this?

I don't drive my '06 very often (900 miles since February - GT convert). Even tho' it's parked in my attached garage, at first I would lock it up and set the alarm (has the optional active system with motion detectors, etc). The battery went completely dead after about 3 weeks, two times. So then I started locking it with a key (which sets the standard alarm, but not the "active" features). It hasn't gone completely dead, but you can tell the battery is low after a few weeks.

So now it's winter and it will be sitting for long periods and I'm afraid to set the alarm at all. In fact, took it for a drive yesterday

- it had been sitting only about 2 weeks and for the heck of it I put the charger on it after I had put on about 20 miles......and it was apparently a low as it charged at 6 to 4 amps for about 4 hours.

Anyone else run into this? Anyone know how much juice the alarm draws? btw, I run the "systems check" and it always sez everything is OK.

Thanks for any input.

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Itsfrom Click
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It doesn't take much for any car to discharge the battery with one thing left on. one small light bulb will do it, killed mine in a week. What you are seeing is about normal for today's cars You may want to just take the + terminal off, Thieves could not start it anyway You could add on another ignition switch in a hidden place for more security.

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DmitryKovtun

Time for a Battery Tender.

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.boB

Thanks for the advice......

talk about a nuisance.......I have a couple old cars and always put a disconnect switch on the batteries, and put the charger on them now and then during the winter.

but the 'stang is a pain: besides the usual clock/radio station issues, the front windows and the tranmission lose their memories, so the disconnect is a no-win.

progress!

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Itsfrom Click

Are you sure you are loosing your radio presets? My 2005 Superduty seems to retain the radio presets after batteries have been disconnected...

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My Name Is Nobody

nobody wrote: ".....are you sure you lost your radio presets......?"

actually, No.....not even sure I've ever set them! But the clock goes off time when I haven't driven it for a couple weeks.......lost both front window "auto drops" once, and this week the passenger side (only) had to be reset.......the transmission has had to "relearn" twice. this has happened even when it turned over and started OK (although it has gone completely dead twice).

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Itsfrom Click

I am having the same problems on my 06 Mustang. I picked it up in June and have 2400 miles on it and my battery had died 3 times already. I recently had the car in for a recall repair on the Roush suspension and I had the dealer check the draw on the battery to see why its dying. They left it hooked up for 2.5 hours and said that the draw was barely anything (.1 milliamps?). They did mention however that this was common with mustangs, but I never had a problem with my 2001 and I used to leave that sitting for months on end.

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Mark

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karinhall

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