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Sounds like the battery was just discharged, you dont always get an idiot light when its not charging. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: <K5Dar@aol.com> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [T3] intermitent elect. problem > I'll dig into the white wire at a later date. Right now I may have bigger > problems. On the way to work I stopped & got coffee (about 5 mi.). Then > farther away I stopped again for gas (about another 10 mi.). When I went to take > off from there, it bearlly turned over. Not enough to start. After jumping it, > I got home & checked the batt. per the elect. section (Bentley) Pg. 6 because > when I tried to restart it in the garage, it was a no go. The 1st & 3rd > cells showed only 1/2 volt. When I took it in for warranty replacement, they put > it on there machine that charged it & then said that it was good. I had to > buy a batt. outright because I wasn't sure whether that batt. is any good or > not. The idiot light had acted right all of the time that I drove it. I'm going > to put in the new batt. & try again in the am. Any other ideas would be > appreciated. Thanks > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >