Re: hot wiring!!!

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

Since when are VW radios switched by the ignition? I've had like 14 VW's and
all of them have had non-switched power to the radio... from my '83 Scirocco to
my '87 QSW. Did some of them come with switched power?
    -Josiah
    '84 GTI
    '86 Scirocco 8v (buy me!)
    '87 QSW
    http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah

Pete Jacobsen wrote:

> I, too, endured the frostbite to check this sh!t out...
> This is the best trick I've ever found!!! man thanks for letteing me
> know about this. How can you keep the radio on, though? Just have to
> hold the high beams on?
>
> Pete
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Chris Coracini <Coracin@usdl.com>
> To: "'scirocco-l@scirocco.org'" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>,
> "'tudor@tvo.org'"
>          <tudor@tvo.org>
> Subject: RE: hot wiring
> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 09:51:07 -0500
>
> wait....  so this isn't a joke?  this really works for you guys?  i
> tried it and absolutely nothing happened (except for the highbeams
> coming on...).
>
> chris
> 86 16V scirocco
>
> >----------
> >From:  tudor@tvo.org[SMTP:tudor@tvo.org]
> >Sent:  Friday, December 11, 1998 9:37 AM
> >To:    scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> >Subject:       Re: hot wiring
> >
> >THANKS, Etrik ... I had to go outside in the frigid morning air
> >wearing nothing but my bathrobe (don't you all wish you were my
> >neighbours?) to try this out.  Please, wait until I'm dressed to tell
> >me things like this in the future.
> >
> >(funky trick, by the way ... but my radio didn't come on)
> >
> >Cheers,
> >-- Michael Helms
> >
> >'81 Scirocco - the fixer-upper
> >'86 Scirocco - the daily driver
> >
> >Web Site:  http://www.continuum.org/helms
> >
> >"If you don't believe your country should come before yourself, you
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> >Stompin' Tom Connors
> >
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