RE: dead battery update

[Bryan Brannigan <bbrannigan@cybertours.com>]

i've found that VW's do odd things when they have electrical problems (i.e 
a fuse blows and the blinkers blink, but it was a completly unrelated fuse.

Bryan 86 8v

On Thursday, July 29, 1999 5:33 AM, Jonas Karlsson 
[SMTP:jkarlsso@metabolex.com] wrote:
> Well, I got a new battery and all is fine.
> Nothing interesting I suppose, but this is my first car, and hence my
> first experience with a dead battery. Here's a couple of things I
> noticed:
>
> 1. The seat-belt light (above the brake warning light by the headlight
> switch) turned on for 5 seconds and then off for 15 seconds continuously
> on the way home. Is it meant to do this? Built in dead-battery warning
> system?
>
> 2. I noticed a dip in torque between 3-3.5K rpm. This started the day
> before the battery died. Like I'd pull off and when I got to 3k it
> hardly pulled at all until I got past 3500 rpm. Is this because there
> was too much current flowing straight through the battery, and thus
> partially "shorting out" the alternator?  like shorting out an electric
> motor to brake it. makes sense to me. :)
>
> hth
>
> Jonas
> 85 Scirocco
>
>
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