About a month ago, my battery died on me after gradually wearing down. It died at a gas station and I started it by popping the clutch. It ran fine with a completely dead battery(per the gadget that was hooked up to it) for 15-20 minutes. This tells me that my alternator was fine based on it running and idling fine for that amount of time.
Fast forward to today and the car barely turns over, just weak and not enough power to start it. I checked the battery and it read 11.5V. My experience tells me that this is a bad battery.
I haven't had any past experience with parasitic draw, so I'm kind of baffled here. Possible problems:
1.Bad Battery?Maybe I just got a bad one from Sams?
2.Bad starter?
3.Bad Alternator?
4.Parasitic draw?
What do you think? Any advice is appreciated.
I'm going to start by having the battery checked out before I do anything else.
Fast forward to today and the car barely turns over, just weak and not enough power to start it. I checked the battery and it read 11.5V. My experience tells me that this is a bad battery.
I haven't had any past experience with parasitic draw, so I'm kind of baffled here. Possible problems:
1.Bad Battery?Maybe I just got a bad one from Sams?
2.Bad starter?
3.Bad Alternator?
4.Parasitic draw?
What do you think? Any advice is appreciated.
I'm going to start by having the battery checked out before I do anything else.