Help please!
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Help please!
So I have a 2004 f150 4.6l V8
I have had a slight drain on my battery it was drawing a little over 4amps with the truck off! I took a multimeter to the fuses with the truck off and measured all my fuses and fuse 15 ( instrument cluster ) was pulling a little over 4. Now I was wondering where I go from here. Does this mean I have a short in my circuit? How would I fix that. Any help or suggestions are always appreciated!
I have had a slight drain on my battery it was drawing a little over 4amps with the truck off! I took a multimeter to the fuses with the truck off and measured all my fuses and fuse 15 ( instrument cluster ) was pulling a little over 4. Now I was wondering where I go from here. Does this mean I have a short in my circuit? How would I fix that. Any help or suggestions are always appreciated!
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do you have anything aftermarket wired through the cluster? I had a aftermarket dvd player installed in my last truck and they wired it through the instrument cluster and would drain my battery in about 48 hours.
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Well I have an in dash DVD player but it was installed 2 years ago and I'm just now getting the problem. Also do they normally wire those through the clusters? I'm not sure if mine is or isn't. And my battery will drain within 20/25 mins!
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I've never heard of them doing it util mine was done. They put a inline relay in and it went bad. That's how I found out. May be a good place to start. Or you can just start disconnecting plugs and watch the multimeter until there is no more draw on the battery