Electrical Quirks

["Brubaker, John" <JBrubaker@AMF.com>]

Hey guys,

I gotta problem.  This isn't with my Scirocco but it's my 85 Golf GTI. 
 When I was driving to a friends house yesterday I notice two things 
occurring.  My radio would go out (loose power) for a second, come 
back on w/ no problem.  This is a digital radio and usually when it 
loses power it also loses its preset stations, this did not occur. 
 The second irregularity was that the seatbelt light (the one right 
next to the brake light which is located to the left of the radio and 
to the right of the instrument cluster) kept coming on infrequently. 
 I tried various different things (turning on blinkers, lights on and 
off, etc.) to try an induce either of these two "irregularities" with 
no luck.  Well, after I arrived at my friends house and stayed for a 
few hours, I came out and tried to start my car.  No luck - it was 
dead, battery zapped.  I jumped the car - started right up.  I then 
drove the car for a while, let the battery charge, stopped at the 
local 7-11 and the car wouldn't start up.  Dead battery - it seemed. 
 After trying the ignition a few more times, it cranked right on over. 
 Hmmm, what's going on here?  Drove home (about 3 blocks), turned the 
car off, tried to turn it back over and nothing.  No crank, nothing 
but the instrument cluster lights came on until I actually turned the 
key to the crank position.  What do y'all think?  This is the first 
time I've had any sort of problem like this on this car and I haven't 
done any work as of lately other than changing the distributor cap and 
rotor (the car runs fine).  Alternator?  Voltage regulator?  Short? 
 Please help.

By the way, the scirocco is running great, just eats up gas (probably 
vaccuum leak that I need to fix).

John
80 Scirocco S
85 GTI

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