86subaru Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 was putting in a different stereo in the forester oem , had key on for awhile , after install battery dead, jumped battery everything good, wondering if battery is going bad, it looks older , yes leaving the key on will kill battery but after awhile not 5 min Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-3-2-4 Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 odd.. I've taken a nap in my Legacy and almost 2 hours lady my Alpine headunit (CDE-9856) was still playing and no dead battery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine73 Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 It all depends how much power you're drawing. If you have a large system and were really cranking it you could drain a starter battery in that amount of time. Especially if the battery is more than a couple years old. Starter batteries do not like to be discharged very much - doing that greatly decreases their life. Get a deep cycle battery if you want to run the stereo a lot without the engine running, such as an Odyssey or Optima or other AGM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edrach Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 It's also possible that your alternator is not fully charging your battery any longer. Have the battery and alternator checked by someone you trust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster2 Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Suggest pulling the caps off the battery to see if the water level is full in the battery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86subaru Posted August 30, 2010 Author Share Posted August 30, 2010 (edited) new alt, old battery it is a oem stereo from a newer outback ,broke the door switch also board ,now window will not go up, never did this before all plug and play now dead battery ???????dam Edited August 30, 2010 by 86subaru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86subaru Posted August 30, 2010 Author Share Posted August 30, 2010 ok, found a different master switch , still drivers window will not go up ,.a buzzing noise in door now all others work , battery seems to hold a charge now, could i have not hooked up something while having the door panel off ,thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86subaru Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 took door panel off , found window motor unplugged, had more trouble putting door panel back on, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-3-2-4 Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 What year? I'm scared to take my door panel off I remember back in 1999 having to do it on my Nissan Maxima and what a pain it was to get back on.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86subaru Posted September 2, 2010 Author Share Posted September 2, 2010 99 forester , it took 2 people to put it back on, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vasy Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 I removed my 96 OBW left side door panel twice in the past 5 years to work on the window master switch. First time it didn't take me long but the second time, for some reason the panel did not want to go back. Took me a good 30 minutes just to reinstall the panel. Hope I don't have to do it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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