Were VW electrical designers on acid?

["Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>]

I was tracing a problem at the weekend where my cluster electrics were going 
haywire when I switched on the headlights - I posted a couple of weeks ago 
looking for hints as to what might be causing it and bad earth seemed to be 
the consensus. I had checked the earth roses at the relay plate and removed 
the cluster looking for bust tracks and then spent a good while tracing the 
diagrams in the Haynes manual. I eventually noticed an earth circuit which 
ran from two points in the cluster and merged at a connector near the relay 
plate before going straight past the earthing roses on the right of the 
plate and went straight to a connection on one of the valve cover studs 
which was only used for these two earths. I followed the wiring at this 
turned out to be the case. _WHY_?!*&£$
Needless to say, the wire had broken off the connector on the head so I just 
re-routed the circuit from the 2 into 1 connector straight to a spare lug on 
one of the earth roses and it fixed the problem.
Would have been useful to know about that strange arrangement before I 
started!

Ewan Hopkins
'85 2L Storm
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