06 srt10 draining battery overnight

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  1. New2srt10

    New2srt10 Full Access Member

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    Hey fellas, I have an 06 QC that will drain the battery overnight to the point that it will not start. I had the battery, alternator and starter all tested and all showed to be good. This has happen twice in about a 2 week period which is the strangest part lol. Any hints or suggestions would be a great help. Thanks guys.
     
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    oldcolt Striker Heads and Cam Supporting Member

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    Any non-stock wiring...stereo etc.?
     
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    It has some wiring of some kind that I just found around the drivers side headlight. Had a Schumacher trickle charger wired up to the battery but I have took all that off. I haven't got into the other bundle of wires around the headlight yet to see what all that is yet. Haven't done parasitic draw test on battery yet but she fired right up this morning and ran good.
     
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    Mine was doing the same, it was the battery.( even though the test stated otherwise) The 4th Ive had under warranty:rock:

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    Lol yeah if she does it again have to dig a bit deeper and maybe replace battery.
     
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    First place to start..... Replace the battery. I thought I had some trouble one day .a while back. and spent days trying to Diagnose. It was the battery......
     
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    We all been there done that I suppose every days my truck would die replaced two batteries the shop thought the interstate vendor gave them a batch of bad batteries but I narrowed it down to the aftermarket dome light bulb 9 bucks later you know how the story ends :)
     
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    Well the beautiful thing is...if you swap the battery..and it still does it, at least you'll know... it ain't the battery. lol
     
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    I had a similar problem. First I was told it was the alternator since i just purchased the battery. Then thought I had a draw turns out that the battery was bad after all.