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Matt, did you check the voltage on your battery? Did you charge your battery after finding it low? charge it with the ploles disconnected. DId you take out fuses one at a time to see what is loading power down? Did your gen light stay on for a while when you turned the car on the last time it broke and worked ? On one of the very rare occasions, my sister borrowed my car, it broke down like this, it was the only time it ever broke down in two years (never left anyone on the road) well upon checking the car the lights were low, the radio did not turn on, all lights were low, no turn signals. The generator light stayed on even without the key in the ignition. I had a rebuilt generator and a 1200 cold cranking amp Diehard 8 year battery. Well I thought it could not be the charging system but upon removing the regulator I found the relay in there had overheated/fused contacts. I broke these apart, charged the battery and evrything worked normal except that every now and then the gen light flickered randomely. I replaced it with a new Bosch solid state one and everything has been good ever sense. You may have a wire shorting out under the dash , I had this problem when I first bought the car. If you smell something or see some "wrinkled" wires under there , that may be your problem. While making sure everything is turned off you can disconnect and reconnect your battery to see if any sparks come out of the poles. In a way this maybe dangerous to do if your space and battery has not been ventilated well from the hydrogen gas after the charge so scratch this out, leave this for komakazies like me. You can also place a 12v light bulb and it's pigtail wire between one pole and it's wire with the other pole connected to the car. The battery will spark at the pole or the lightbulb will light if anything is drawing current, in fact the light bulb may burnout or pop if there is alot of current draw fron your culprit. So scratch that too leave that to the crazies. I guess if you have a meter you can use that in the place of the lightbulb. Read the instructions to use the current mode if it has one. Check your electrical, starting from the charging system to the fuse box. Disconnect each wire one at a time and connect them back even unscrew the fuse box and let it hang so you can check each wire . Before each wire is to be checked disconnect the battery momentarly then diconnect wire, reconnect battery, did the lights and stuff look better? Disconnect battery and continue to the next wire. Also a real biggy can be the chunky hot wire that goes to the starter and battery, if you have a hot or ground wire flopping around there you can shut your world down in a second. The previous owner put a Bosch relay down there so the ignition switch would not get the brunt of the power hit when car was turned on. The wires were kind of flopping from the solenoid on the starter , Well the hot wire to the relay was hitting ground and shutting car down when I accelerated too much so I drove the car slowly when I first got it. When my relay died I troubleshot it and found the very junky installation. corrected this and never had problems again. Wiring may be painful and tedious but patience and careful checking will fix all wiring problems for good. LEON MARTINEZ 1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org