Posted by Goose on December 09, 2008 at 12:04:38 from (65.208.249.179):
In Reply to: 99 MONTE CARLO posted by MARK R on December 09, 2008 at 07:21:09:
I agree with Bryan. Worst of it is when they won't tell you what they've done, or how the problem started.
A year or so ago, I was called on to work on a full sized Chevy conversion van. Something kept draining the battery and I could show a couple of amps draw by putting an ammeter in series with the battery. It took me a while to figure it out.
What had happened, was a part had broken in the horn button in the steering wheel causing the horns to stick. The owner remedied it by unplugging the original wires from the horns and wiring in a separate button for the horns. This left the original horn relay activated, causing the current draw. It was surprising the relay survived several months of being energized.
The fix was to replace a $2.00 part in the steering wheel and tear out the extra button and all the wiring for the horns except the original.
The owner was my brother-in-law, and he claimed it had been wired that way when he bought the van. Only he had owned the van for a year before the battery started going dead. He paid the full price for the repair. My wife's brothers, their families, and I have an agreement. Kinship is kinship and business is business, and the two don't intermix.
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