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2007 MKZ excessive amp draw


Crippleinthewoods

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Hello everyone, I have been dealing with a possible battery draw and I’m at wits end! Hoping someone can help me out… At some point a while back I had a couple days off and I didn’t leave my house. After my 2 or 3 days of not driving the car, the car wouldn’t start and I had to charge the battery. I started troubleshooting, put a clamp meter on the battery ground and started pulling fuses… more on that in a minute. I noticed that when I unlock my car it pulls close 20 amps on my meter 😵💫. I know a lot of systems come online but that seems excessive, right? It slowly drops and if I double lock the car it’s back down to around 1 amp till the car goes to sleep where it reads around .05. Back to the fuse pulling… I couldn’t get the amps below 1 while the car was “still awake.” (Doors closed and no interior lights on) It gets a bit weird here, I pulled all the fuses and relays one at a time and in doing so found that if I take out the large clear top fuse for heated seats, my door lock actuators stop working. If I pull my door lock actuator fuse, my power mirrors don’t work and Vice versa when I pull the mirror fuse. Not sure if that is related to my massive amp draw or just another problem. The car has never been flooded as far as I know but it has lived it’s whole life here in New Orleans so there is a possibility of that. Even so, I don’t remember having to drive it daily to keep the battery charged. Anyway… thanks for taking the time to read this, any advice is appreciated!

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