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When I got back from my trip to Japan, my sister who borrowed my car told me that the car was left at a parking lot and did not start, appearantly the battery was dead. Upon investigation I found that the voltage regulator kicked the bucket, so I drove my car home after recharging my battery with another car. In Mexico I found a regulator for 24 bucks but it surprized me because it was genuine Bosch and it was good for cars up to 1992. Did Mexican cars and busses have generators until then? This regulator is a solid state type, epoxy filled and with very large semiconductors pressed into a heatsink; the bottom of the regulator has a small box that looks like a circuit breaker. It looks odd but space age to me. It is stamped 14 volts 30 amp . Have any of you ever seen one of these or used one? This seems like a perfect direct replacement. It works very well with no mechanical movement and may take many hits before replacement. My original BOSCH regulator seemed to be the one that came with the car because it had a tag with a date code of 1968 and at the bottom it had a very old fasioned gold plated diode. It did it's job well for a long time until this weekend. LEON MARTINEZ martinezl@ftscpac.navy.mil 1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe