Alpine cd player cause of draining my battery?

[strobez1977]

I fitted a 2nd hand alpine cd player to my mondeo and yesterday my car had a flat battery and thought it might be the cd player, it there any chance it cause a battery to go flat over night?

[SpecB]

If you have wired the permanent and switched lives the wrong way around then yes it could so that would be the first thing to check.

[strobez1977]

thanks, i bought it 2nd hand so not sure what wires could be set up wrong

[gowmonster]

typically there is a yellow wire and a red wire on wee clips that pop off, you can swap these over so it's yellow-red and red-yellow

[Negative Creep]

Does it save your presets when you turn the ignition off?

[strobez1977]

Negative Creep said:

Does it save your presets when you turn the ignition off?

yeh im sure it does

[gowmonster]

is probably not the red/yellow if the presets are being saved. your essentially swapping a switched live for a permanent.

was it going cheap?

[Negative Creep]

Even if the stereo was wired permanently it would take weeks to fully drain the battery. I'd say it's more likely to be the battery has packed in

[strobez1977]

can i upload a pic of the wires if i take a pic of it?

thanks

[Codswallop]

strobez1977 said:

can i upload a pic of the wires if i take a pic of it?

thanks

If you put your mind to it, yes.

[gowmonster]

WWW.tinypic.com may be useful

[strobez1977]

[strobez1977]

[strobez1977]

Just took these pics..let me know what you think thanks.

[E30M3SE]

It's wired up correctly.

Wire it back in and put a meter across the battery to measure the drain, see if the unplugging the alpine cd reduces that drain, if it does then the cd player has an internal fault, if it doesn't then you issue lies elsewhere.

[strobez1977]

Think it might of been the battery, i changed the battery yesterday and put the stock ford cd player in and just started the car first time this morning...will put the alpine cd player back in