How to Find a Short in your Car

Parasitic Draw Test and how to find a short. Does your car battery die after your car sits for a few hours, a day, or a couple of days? Well there are 3 causes for this: bad/old battery, a bad alternator, and a short (parasitic draw). This video shows you how to see if you have a short and then how to diagnose that short.

Here is a good yet inexpensive multimeter you can use for this test: amzn.to/4iBlWgK

The follow-up video with how I fixed the short: youtube.com/watch?v=Lj1lNnxuGEo

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0:00 Intro
0:25 Disconnect battery
1:40 Clean battery connection
2:05 Multimeter explanation
2:35 Battery test
3:03 Multimeter setup
3:19 Testing setup
3:50 Disconnect fuses
6:39 Problem found
7:51 Outro

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