RE: Stranded

["Neal Tovsen" <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>]

That dang loose wire on the starter happened to me, too. Cost me a $50 tow
(didn't find it in the parking lot), but fortunately I found the problem
before spending even more money to have someone else do it...

Neal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo [mailto:majord@neubayern.net]On Behalf Of Paul Maione
> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 1999 6:26 PM
> To: slink1@jps.net
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Stranded
>
>
> > Last night I drove my 85 rocco to pick up my friend for a night on the
> > town.  When I got to his house. I took the engine off for a minute to
> > put something in the trunk.  Now when I returned to start the engine I
> > gets nothing. The engine would not rotate, for some reason I thought
> > that it was the battery.  Seeing that we were in a rush we went in his
> > prelude.  Now today I checked my battery and I'm getting a reading of
> > 11.56 also the battery is leaking.  I'm about to go to exchange my
> > battery, but I would like to know if I'm tackling this problem
> correctly
> > or if the problem lies somewhere else.
>
> You know, someting very similar happend to me in my
> Scirocco when I first got it. Go to start the car in
> mornin' and I check nothing. Tried jumping, nothing.
> I poped the clutch and got it going, but then it would
> radomly die, so I left it alone. After racking my brain
> for hours, I look at the starter and I could see a little yellow wire
> dangling free. I connect it back to
> where it was and sure enough, she starts on a dime!
> You might want to check that out! HTH!
>
>
> ==
> Paul Maione (Rump Rocker)
> Scirocco 86' 8v (Stored for winter :p)
> []D [] []V[] []D
> http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/9149/
> "There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out
> the short comming of others is there?" - Randall
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