Unusual electrical gremlin story

[doubt at inwave.com (Nate Mellom)]

Nice!  Betcha that boggled some brains for a while.

I gots one.
In my '81.
To turn *OFF* the blower fan, *AFTER* the key is turned on, I have to 
turn *ON* my wipers.

Wet n' rusty fuse blocks RULE!

Nate


Jacob Hawes wrote:
> In other words, just another day.
> 
> I was talking to a friend who years ago had a rabbit. At some point it 
> developed a gremlin. What would happen is that the headlights would 
> blink. They blinked faster the faster he went and slower the slower he 
> went. It would be pretty slow when he was coming to a stop and if he 
> stopped moving when the lights were on the off blink the car would die.
> 
> Turns out the aluminum washer on a ground had oxidized and blocked the 
> wire from grounding. So it instead grounded through the axles which 
> included the CV joints. The blinking and dying was when the joint was 
> turned so that the part if was grounding through wasn't connecting to 
> the rest of it.
> 
> Any other howd's-that-work gremlin stories?
>