I am battling a battery draining situation. The battery will go dead after about 3 days of not driving it. It is a new battery and it was doing this with the old battery as well. I was wondering first if there are any common issues that I could check out. If not, where do I begin to troubleshoot?

 

I'd suggest pulling the radio fuse see if that is it, if not, then continue with (put fuse back) and try something else. Radio stays 'powered up" (memory) even when the car isn't being driven.

 

Thanks for the suggestion. Hooked up the meter to the battery and noted the amps which was 0.007 amps. I pulled all the fuses and the only ones to cause it to drop were the radio and the fuse for the abs system. The radio caused it to drop 0.002 amps and the abs caused it to drop 0.001 amps. I did not think this was enough to drain the battery in 2-3 days. Now here is what happened that is kind of funny. I opened the passenger door with the meter still hooked up and it went to 3.5 amps which would be normal since all of the lights came on. I closed the door and the amps went down to 0.007 again. I opened and shut the door again and it only went down to 0.117 or so and then stayed there until I pulled the fuse. I put the fuse back in and it stayed at 0.117. It now stays there. Is that enough to drain the battery?? I'm going to keep the fused pulled for now.