Q: Battery goes dead overnight
I had the fuel pump replaced, and ever since then, my battery is drained more often than not... I took it back to who put in the fuel pump, and he did not know what was draining the battery, mentioned something about a security device??? ALSO... it idles really high while in park... I have had a few places look into that as well, and nobody seems to know what the problem is... I just replaced the transmission as well, which was quite costly, and I would rather not get rid of the car! It belonged to my Mother who passed away! It has sentimental value to me!!
My car has 104000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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