expected current draw when car is off

either excessive radon exposure from the Canadian Shield - or - electromagnetic disturbance caused by the Northern Lights.

Oh, I know that, it's just that yesterday and today is the first time your posts have done it - and nobody else's are. I can reformat the messages to read them, but someone with a less flexible newsreader is just going to see the first 1/3rd or so of each of your lines, which makes them make at least 66% less sense.

Dave

either excessive radon exposure from the Canadian Shield - or - electromagnetic disturbance caused by the Northern Lights.

Actually - my posts usually don't make much sense 66% of the time on the first read anyway.. :) ..

What triggered the change here (a while back now) was actually google groups - but the problem appears to be the same at other web based NG aggregators. Have a peak yourself:

If you resize the screen left and right you'll notice that most of the posts reformat oddly - or don't use all the left line space available on the screen if they aren't formated oddly. I read you as a Debian client - I use Opera here myself. I renewed my three licenses 2 days before thay started to give it away with the google bar embedded. Not sure if I should be bent I paid or happy I don't have to figure out how to strip the embed.

Anyway - given you and I can, we are sort of stuck with client side word wrap on inbounds for the moment. If nothing else, it assures that links works. Bound to come eventually mon frere, every byte is sacred as Red China starts to really come online you know.

I replaced mine with standard/manual belts. Hated those automatic things.

John

Our 1987 900S Turbo Conv did exactly the same thing and I narrowed it down to the alarm systems. Although the manual said you could shut them off, I could not completely shut down the second one. We would leave the car for a week and the battery was dead as a doornail. So I installed a kill switch at the battery. A lot of people told me that the kill switch has a high failure rate, but mine is simple. You have to remember to make sure it is tight when engaged. Now each weekend when we show up at our summer place, I turn on the kill switch, reset the radio code and the car starts without a problem.

Tom R.

just an update: i finally got some time and looked at the current draw with everything off and it was only 20mA. that seemed reasonable to me. i pulled the seatbelt fuse and rechecked, and there was no difference, so i don't have to worry about the seatbelts scewing up stuff, and all the lights are off. so i think i'll just put a new battery in and hope it doesn't die.

If you are draining your battery with only a 20ma draw, the battery is the culprit.

Do you have remote locking? If so, the receiver is always on and draws a very small current.

You can get that much leakage around switches that are supposedly off.