Parasitic Voltage Draw

The battery maintainer is probably your best option other than driving it every few days. A 58ma draw is not gona bother anything if your battery is good and you drive it often enough.

 

If it’s parked inside a garage, battery tender. If it’s parked outside, solar charger that lays on the dash. Keep in mind, the cigarette lighter/ power outlet is key switched, so if you intend to plug into that to keep the battery charged, you need to solder the relay contacts closed.

 

It’s in the garage typically, but out on a hike sometimes, it’ll be parked for up to ten days. But I’ve got one of those track lite jumpers for the occasional need.

 

I was having a similar problem after my 12 volt solutions remote start. When I would leave headlight switch in the on position or running light position over night, it would drain the battery,,,,they recommend turning light switch to off position when not in use....It worked for me, battery has not drained .........

 

That brings up a couple interesting questions I hadn’t checked to get the answers to. Where would I check for the remote start draw? And do the headlights ever come on automatically, or do they need to be turned on when driving at night? So many little things that I took for granted on other vehicles, like auto lights, direction and temperature, I haven’t found on this truck.

 

Do you have a remote start installed....I also have the phone app that remote starts the truck....On my girlfriends 2015 rav4 , if you leave headlight in on postion and shut off vehicle there will be a indicator telling you to turn of lights........

 

I have remote start installed.

 

try turning off headlight switch and let us know if that worked,,,,

 

I’ve never turned the headlights on yet! Haven’t driven the truck much since we bought it in august. 2020 year of the apocalypse! Just working, and covering for the “nonessential”!

 

Battery tender sounds like the ticket if your not driving it.............

 

I’m dreaming that 2021 will be the year of the taco!!!!

 

Something is going on here. I have left mine parked for upwards of two months and it started up no issues. A couple of weeks shouldn't be an issue at all.

 

Well back to troubleshooting. I cut it in half yesterday , we’ll have to see if that solved the problem or not.