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I did a couple of small jobs to my '97 9000 CS today, and the end result was my battery drained.
1. The driver's sunvisor has been hanging loose for years, I recently got a replacement, so when today I removed the old one and replaced it with the good one. There was a wire connection to the old sunvisor for the lights to the vanity mirror, though tohse lights weren't working anyway. I just disconnected the wires attached to the old visor by unplugging the connection, and stuffed the other end back into the hole above the visor. Installed the new visor, and everything was fine.
2. Next job, I've been having noise in the left front speaker for ages, so I removed the passenger front seat to get at the amp, so I could turn it down a bit in front. The amp is an aftermarket 4-channel amp I had professionally installed a few years ago, never had any problems. I disconnected the inputs to the amp so that I could clean around it (as I had the seat out and good access), reconnected the inputs, put the seat back, everything worked fine.
3. Finally, I had an extra set of speaker wires running to the trunk that were capped and covered with tape. I put a JL component speaker in the trunk and connected it using the extra wires, everything worked fine.
Through all of this, I had the radio running with the engine switched off for no more than 10 minutes, probably no more than 5 mintues.
Shortly after doing all this, I went out to move the car, and it was dead! The voltmeter on the EDU was showing 7.-something, and dropping to 6.0 after two attempts to start. The radio was dead, along with most other electrical accessories (lights, alarm, power locks, etc.).
I left it for an hour or so, and briefly there was enough power for the radio to work again, but that died as soon as I tried to start the car.
WTH have I done? TIA
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