At 10:55 AM 9/29/97 -0400, Don Mathis wrote:
>I did not drive my MGA for about 9 days. When I attempted to start it
>yesterday, the battery was dead. The battery is 2 months old. I took off
>the negative ground and placed a ammeter between the lead and the negative
>battery post. It read 128 ma. Somewhere I have a semi-short! Any ideas
>how one should logically, find this? Thanks-
Weren't you having to use a battery charger to get the battery strong
enough to honk the horn just a week or so ago??
So, apparently the problem is not a NEW one??! Curious....
Carol
As I recall:
Carol replied to Don:
>>My solution was a good 5 hours on the charger.
>Sounds like a lot of trouble to go to just to honk the horn. Why not just
>start the car and then honk?
Don replied:
> guess one could question why one wants to honk the horn in the garage with
>he motor off!!! What was one doing when one first discovered that? I think
> was just checking to see if the horn still honked!! Look, if I was
>normal, I wouldn't have one of these things! Good question, though.
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