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Electrical Problem?
- Subject: Electrical Problem?
- From: juliemac57@hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:11:37 +0000
Its them d**n aliens again. Messin' wit your head.
(Try the battery grounds)
>From: "Tyler P." <ty@festf.org>
>To: "List (E-mail)" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Electrical Problem? Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:54:31 -0700
>
>This has happened a couple times in the last few days. I'm driving down
>the
>road with my lights and radio on. All the sudden the car will have a
>slight
>pause in it that feels much like when an automatic downshifts on the
>freeway. My temperture light blinks about 3 times, the radio goes silent
>for about half a second, and then everything just goes back to normal. I
>thought that it was my battery cable cause my positive was getting kinda
>corruded so I cleaned it but the problem started happening again today.
>
>Another strange thing is that this has tended to happen only in one spot of
>town. I remember hearing about a guy having problems with his Jaguar and
>it
>turned out that the car's computer was picking up some interferring signal
>whenever he got to a certain part of the freeway and his car would just
>shut
>off. The mechanic put a special shield around his computer and the problem
>went away. I didn't think that my 84 8valve has much in the way of
>computers in it but seeing as its always this one part of town, it really
>makes me wonder.
>
>Any ideas???
>
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Julie Macfarlane
Web Developer
Albany NY
Charter Member "Scirocco Anonymous"
'85 8v-?? "Scarlett" (frankly, she doesn't give a d**n)
'81 16v-2Y "Animal"
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