I have a 2012 Nissan frontier SV 4.0L V6.
During the cold weather months the truck fails to turn on, it seems that at a certain temperature it will it try to crack over or if it's cold enough outside it will not crank over at all.
During warm weather there is no issue.
I have replaces the battery a couple of times and i believe I have a battery with the most cold cranking apps available to the truck. It is a normal Wal Mart battery. Not a red top optima battery.
I suspect parasidic drain but i believe that if it was a parasidic drain then this would be happening all year long and not only during cold weather.
I have unplugged the negative terminal from the battery and hooked up one end of the volt meter to the negative wire and one end to the negative terminal and there is a reading of about 10v.
I tried going thru and removing the fuses but could not find that any of them dropped the 10v reading and perhaps i may have done it incorrectly.
What advice would you give me on this?
It sounds like you have a problem with your ground connections or your alternator is not fully recharging your new battery. Should have 12.5v when off ad 14.5v at idle. Just put the meter across neg and pos.
Oh yes sorry I forgot to mention that when testing the battery normally with a volt meter. The reading is 12.4 or so
That's a good reading. What is the voltage at idle?
Scotty has a great video on finding and fixing Parasitic Drain. You should watch it. I'm sure it will help.
Yes, i will try to follow it again. I tried doing it from memory last time.
Do you believe parasidic drain would be the issue though? It the battery only drains during the winter?
It sounds like it. Check the main grounding cable from the battery to sheet metal for looseness and corrosion. Then look for and check to grounding cable(s) from the engine to the body sheet metal. Because you have replaced the battery, I don't think that's the problem though I have seen that happen. Does it have the required CCA for your vehicle? If you disconnect the negative cable from the battery and attach your meter to it and the other end to ground, set the meter on 20V dc. If your reading voltage, start pulling fuses one at a time until the meter drops so you can isolate the circuit where the drain is. Once you know which circuit is pulling current, the fun begins trying to find what, on that circuit, is causing the problem.