Re: electrical prob.-wipers,blower,radio

["'84 Scirocco" <scirocco@macslut.org>]

Yea, if your radio is like mine, there is no way it can be wired to go off
when the ignition is off unless someone at some point wired that in, and a
lot of people do it at the rear defrost switch due to its location.

Greg


on 12/26/00 16:36, Chris DeLong at green536@hotmail.com wrote:

> 
> Josh, I could be wrong but it sounds like your load reduction relay or
> wiring to said relay is screwed up. I dont know the position on the fusebox
> for a MKII load reduction relay. Is the radio stock? If it is then I doubt
> it is directly related to your wipers and blower. Check the wiring and relay
> as per Bentley. It could be that your radio is wired to the rear defroster
> which aslo runs through this relay. This would onlyy apply if the radio is
> not stock or the wiring has been changed from factory wiring. HTH
> 
>> 
>> This is for an '88 16v Scirocco:
>> 
>> Right now my wipers, heat/AC blower, and radio will not work.  I thought it
>> had something to do with the air blower switch, because when everything
>> would quit if I turned the switch back and forth it would all come back on.
>> At first it would only happen once in a while and only at certain blower
>> speeds.  Then all of a sudden all blower speeds worked (so it's not the
>> inline resistors).  Last week none of the speeds would work, and for some
>> reason the wipers and radio would not work.  I looked through the wiring
>> diagrams in the bently and I cannot find any link between the wipers and
>> the
>> blower switch.  My radio is wired to turn on and off with the ignition, and
>> I have no idea if this is somehow linked to the blower wiring now.  I
>> bought
>> a new blower switch to see if it would help, but it didn't.  All of the
>> fuses are ok.
>> 
>> If anyone has any ideas please let me know.  It is cold and snowing so my
>> car is grounded without heat and wipers.  Thanks for any help.
>> 
>> Josh Strait
>> 
>> 1988 16v
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