re: Underwhelming Cars

My uncle's sold used cars on the side of their main business. A dealer basically threw in a Hyundai Excel they got for a trade if they agreed to buy another vehicle that was also taken in on a trade. It was a pos, but it ran. They agreed.

The Excel had a parasitic electrical draw that would drain the battery overnight. They asked if I would take a look at it and see if I could find out what it was. I went all over that car with a meter and even pulled every fuse in the fuse lock along with disconnecting the alternator. It would still drain the battery overnight. I swore it was the battery itself but three was put in it from other vehicles that didn't have the same problem and it did the same thing on the Hyundai. I couldn't find anything on the vehicle that was wired in or swapped out from the former owner.

I reassembled it, hooked everything back up, put all the fuses back in, and recommended to them to scrap it. I think they sold it for a song to someone who actually put a battery shutoff switch on it like a race car has and drove it for a little while.