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A good battery and a running car should have around 11.5 or 12V at the battery, with the lights on it should still be close to 11. 8V... (if its really 8) at the battery indicates a bad battery if you had just charged it.... they can develop internal shorts. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 75 Opel 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian" <vwfye@frontiernet.net> To: "Type 3 Mailing List" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [T3] gen/VR trouble > okay....NOW I AM JUST PISSED! Get everything working. Drive to work... > still getting good voltage! Come home, everything is great. Go out 10 > minutes later and start the car, then, the voltage gauge starts to drop, > and drop and drop. Down to 8v again, then lower... Shut off the car, > recharge the battery, recheck all the wire connections. Start the car > and back to loosing voltage in a hurry. Have the battery tested, it is > fine. Go through the whole process again. Start the car, good voltage! > whahoooo!!!!! let the car idle for a while... seems good. Go to move > the car and let it idle some more, after 20 minutes of what seems like > perfection, it happens again. GRRRRRRRRRRR > > -- > Brian Fye > 1964 Notch Speedster 2332cc > 1964 Notchback 1500cc > 1973 Squareback 1904cc > http://www.geocities.com/menacefye/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ > ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/