Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
My son’s is car parked most of the time at college. He says it was driven far enough before being parked so the battery should have been fully charged. It sat for 10 or 12 days. The dash lights worked as normal and it would activate the starter motor but it would not turn the engine over. From his description it sounds like as soon as the starter was engaged the start would abort. He said he got a code for the e-brake. He jumped it and it seems fine now. We measured the amp draw while it was parked with a cheap meter and it fluctuated between 0 and 0.1 amps.
Is it normal for todays vehicles to draw the battery down so quick? When he bought the car the dealer got it out of “dealer storage”. I wonder if the battery went dead while in dealer storage and now has reduced capacity. Anybody have experience with something like this? What should the parked amp draw be? And since turning the key now a days is just a request for the computer to crank the starter, what are the built in start abort parameters (ie battery voltage drop, a very short delay timer where if the engine does not rotate it aborts, or something else)?
Is it normal for todays vehicles to draw the battery down so quick? When he bought the car the dealer got it out of “dealer storage”. I wonder if the battery went dead while in dealer storage and now has reduced capacity. Anybody have experience with something like this? What should the parked amp draw be? And since turning the key now a days is just a request for the computer to crank the starter, what are the built in start abort parameters (ie battery voltage drop, a very short delay timer where if the engine does not rotate it aborts, or something else)?
