Car keeps dying, ticking noise from kick panel

[Chris1320]

Hey guys, I'm having a pain of an issue with my install. The car after a day or two of sitting will be completely dead, and two times out of about 3or 4 it's been dead, there's a fast ticking noise coming from around the right kick panel area. The car is a 13 mustang, front is focal flax 3 ways (crossovers in the kick panels ), arc 300.4 and 300.2, single 12. The first time this happened I took it back to the shop. They said it was the battery, bought a new battery and got it back on Thursday. Went out of town Friday-Sunday and it seemed fine. Monday it started fine. This morning Wednesday, dead again and making the ticking sound from the right front kick panel area. The shop said they checked it last time and didn't find any draw from anywhere. And when they tested the battery it would drop about .1 volts every half hour. Which is when they put a new one in (ford battery). Does anyone have any ideas of what it could possibly be? I'm going to have to take it back again...but want to maybe have some areas or ideas to have them check. The car never had a single issue before the install. And the battery was perfectly fine prior to as well. This last 6 weeks with this has been a pain. I just want it right.

Thanks

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[nismos14 5,000+ posts]

Are the amps staying on constantly? Make them fix it, it didn't do this before the install, correct?

 

[06gtmike 10+ year member]

Have you checked the battery voltage with a meter to see if it's dead. Make sure the battery ground terminal has a good connection. I actually had the same thing happen to me with a mustang and it ended up just being a bad connection.

 

[Chris1320]

After the new battery both amps stayed on. Took a 2 hour trip each way this weekend and they stayed on. There's a scratchy kind of noise from the 4 ch. occasionally. When I first got the car back, the 4 ch would cut out randomly, but would come back on after a few (5-15) seconds. I turned the volume down when it turned off, I don't know if that made a difference. But no, prior to the install when the cat was all stock there were no issues

 

[06gtmike 10+ year member]

After the new battery both amps stayed on. Took a 2 hour trip each way this weekend and they stayed on. There's a scratchy kind of noise from the 4 ch. occasionally. When I first got the car back, the 4 ch would cut out randomly, but would come back on after a few (5-15) seconds. I turned the volume down when it turned off, I don't know if that made a difference. But no, prior to the install when the cat was all stock there were no issues

Think he meant staying on constantly like even with the car off.

 

[Chris1320]

They tested the battery after I took it back last time. And it wound up at like 4.5 volts. Ill have to check it out today. I don't have a meter on hand

 

[Chris1320]

Oh. Ha sorry. That was my original thought when it happened the first time. I just looked and there's no lights on them and they cold. But there's no power to the car anymore so I don't know if there'd be enough left to power them to have anything light up

 

[Chris1320]

I've been trying to read up on parasitic draw problems. The head unit is a Pioneer 4100NEX, with the harnesses to retain steering wheel controls and sync. Which sync doesn't work (or so I'm told I never used it anyway) he said it works, but no sound comes from it because it tries to send it through the factory amps (which aren't connected). Anyway, I don't think he had a lot of experience with fords and the wiring that goes with all of that. Could something with the hu cause all of this? And if so, what could it be? I'm not the swiftest when it comes to technical and electrical things so I apologize for the seemingly simple questions.