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hey there guys i need your help big time,

so i went to school in a hurry to take my trig exam and left my running lights on while i had the turbo time set for 2min the the running lights were left on from 8am-4pm so of course when i tried to start it it only made a TICK sound (my battery was drained) and asked the campus security to give me a jump with one of their portable jump starters. sure enough it started with no problems. i drove it for 10 miles to my friends house i turned it off and made sure all the lights were off.

well after a few hours of playing Black Ops 2 it was time to go home and this time

i tried to turn it on it sounded like it wanted to turn over but didn't want to fire up it just turned and turned and turned and turned but nothing. so my friend told me that we should push start it, we had one of our buddies jump in put it in 2nd and clutch pressed all the way down while we pushed as fast as we could, letting go of the clutch slowly it started like nothing.

well i drove it home and everything was working fine got home turned it off and it started to do the same thing again when i was at my friends house. and the miles that i had accumulated from the drive (9miles) went back to back to (0miles)

i soon began to think that the battery might be dead for sure. so i the following morning (yesterday) i took the battery to Kragen (Oreilly) Auto Parts to check it out and the guy told me that the battery was good holding 12.45V @ 75% of life left. either way i asked if he could give it a deep charge. 1 hour later i got it back went back home plugged it back into my FD and still it did the same thing when i was at my friends house but this time faster.

TROUBLESHOOTING

i thought it might be the "BATTERY, ALTERNATOR, STARTER OR SOMETHING ELSE"

1)so to rule out the battery i took the one from my friends camry and plugged into my FD still did the same thing.

2)so i push started it again and worked like a charm went around the block and then left it on for 5 min idling with the turbo timer. when i tried to start it again from inside it still did the same thing and the accumulated (0.4mile) that i had went back to (0miles)

3)so i push started it again this time to check if the alternator was done for. sure after the push start it started again like nothing, left it running for a few min and took off the negative wire from the battery covered it with a rag, then i took off the positive wire from the battery and covered that with a rag, and surprise surprise the car was still running purely with the alternator only. so i ruled out the alternator as a possible problem.

4)so i borrowed my friends battery charger and multimeter, i charged my battery for a good long while, then when i plugged it back into my car and its still doing the same thing and after a few more tries still the same thing. i looked at it with the multimeter and its reading 12.93V

so here are a few things that i noticed differently about the FD

a) before if i would turn off the car with the running lights on it was make a beeping sound when i opened the door to give me a heads up to turn it off. it doesn't make that sound anymore.

b) before with the car turned off (key out) and turning the switch for the running lights on, you can see the running lights turned on. but now they wont turned on unless you have the key in and in the on position.

c) before when i would lock my door by pushing down on the lock button and you can hear the alarm (BEEP) and lock the passenger door. but now it doesn't make that sound anymore.

with even though the car doesn't start with the charged battery in, but with the key in the on position, the lights from inside the cabin work, JVC head unite work, headlights work, the running lights work, the cluster lights work, the Defi boost gauge works.

i havent checked the starter and i dont know how but what else can it be??

i have a multimeter at my disposal
any help will be greatly appreciated especially since this is my daily driver