New battery draining yet i disconnected everything

[lov4godgst]

91 TSI AWD
Overnight my car's battery had completely drained. The battery tested out as bad, so I got a new one. The next morning my new battery was completly dead. I charged it up and drove it to my parents. I got the voltmeter out and removed the 3 positive terminal connections. One was pulling juice. I hooked my voltmeter between it and the positive terminal. I think it was pulling 2.5 amps.
So I begun to remove things. All of my fuses in the car at the kick panel are pulled out. My radio and ECU are disconnected. I pulled the main harness on the alternator. I pulled all the fuses and relays in the fuse box where the alternator fuse is. I tried the AC fuse box too. Nothing effected the drainage acording to the voltmeter.
My father was helping too and was puzzeled as well.
I'm thinking about installed a switch on the positive terminal so I can kill it everytime I park the car, but that will be a pain.
The only electrical problem I can think of is my headlights/dash lights, etc. used to not come on when I turned my headlights on. But they always all came on when I tried a 2nd time.

 

[luv2rallye]

See here for short finding http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1496998#post1496998 and use the light bulb trick mentioned.

 

[dieseltech]

If pulling fuses did nothing for amperage draw, you probably have a short. Im not I don't know on 2g's if the alternator is fused or not. You may start there and unhook the positive lead to the alternator and then unhook the regulator. hope this helps

 

[BISHILVR]

This is gettin more and more common on 2g's for some reason. My buddy had this problem and it ended up being his door lock mechanisms.

 

[lov4godgst]

BTW, I eventually traced this to a short in my alternator. I thought I had ruled it out, but I was wrong.