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Thread: Glove Compartment Causes Battery Drain? Not the light!

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    Glove Compartment Causes Battery Drain? Not the light!

    Ok so I did my parasitic drain test, and when I unplugged the fuse for the glove box, it showed almost no draw.

    So I put my phone on video record into the glove box, closed it, and the light did go out.

    So what else from the glove box draws power???

    I do have a little ipod connector in there, but nothing connected to it, that cant be it, I assume.

    So now I just have that fuse out for over a week, and no problem starting, yet.
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    The rechargeable flashlight. Try removing it and see if the draw is gone. The battery is probably bad and keeps trying to charge. If you even have it still. Most are probably gone by now.

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