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On 25 Jun 2003 at 11:01, Mike Wodkowski wrote: > Apropos of this, I recall seeing the Bentley manual mention that if the > wipers weren't going completely into parked position that the problem could be > the ground connection. Wouldn't this just result in the wipers not working at > all? My first thought was to agree with you, but then I looked at the Bentley and saw that it referred to a ground wire to terminal 31b. When I looked at the wiring diagram for a 73 (which is the only one for which we get a complete currrent track diagram) there is no terminal 31b, but earlier years get such a wire. It appears that VW changed the way they did this. With some difficulty I can follow how this works for 73, but we really don't get much help for the earlier years. At any rate, it's clear that nothing would work if the main ground wire was disconnected, but apparently VW switched the grounds in earlier years, so the parking switch got a special intermediate ground wire, while 73 got a special intermediate hot wire, terminal 53e. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org