Weird electrical problem

[ubik@austin.rr.com (L. M. Lloyd)]

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Thank you everybody for your help. Turns out it was the load
reduction relay, and as luck would have it I actually had an extra in
my glove compartment!







The goal is to overcome the deliberate nature of the process. 

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> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 6:48 PM
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> Sorry I haven't been very active on the list lately. I had a
> producer pull out of my current film, so now I am having to
> shoulder the
> entire burden myself, leaving me no money and almost no time, so
> the car hasn't been touched in a while.
> 
> Anyway, on to my problem. On my '88 16v, I have a very odd problem.
> My auxiliary electrical systems are being very flaky. Now the
> headlights, turn signals, and all the necessary electronics work
> fine, but all the secondary systems are malfunctioning in some sort
> of odd connected way. It is a little complicated, so please bear
> with me on this. For example, if I just start the car then my power
> windows, windshield wipers, hazard lights and AC blower don't work
> at all, except the blower will work only on the highest setting.
> However, the squirter for the rear window will work, but not the
> wiper, and the power locks always work. If, on the other hand, I
> pull the intermittent wiper relay out of the relay panel before
> starting the car, then the power windows and AC blower work fine
> unless the headlights are on. If the headlights are on and the
> wiper relay is removed, then the AC blower will not work on 
> anything but the
> highest setting, and the power windows will only work if the blower
> is off. Of course the wipers won't work without the wiper relay,
> but the hazards never work no matter what.
> 
> Now going through the wiring diagram, I can't find anything but
> perhaps the load reduction relay that could be effecting all these
> different systems. I have checked all my fuses and they are all
> fine, and I just finished putting in a new alternator, so I know
> that isn't the problem. The battery is also fairly new, and seems
> to have a good charge, so I don't think that is the problem. All of
> these problems started showing up at the same time a couple of
> weeks ago, and at
> first the windshield wipers were just flaky, but now they just
> don't work at all.
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> Anyone have any ideas?
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> The goal is to overcome the deliberate nature of the process. 
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