electrical issue

[amalventano1@comcast.net (Allyn)]

Kevin,
    People usually put a 25 amp fuse in its place when they put a stronger head unit in there. As
for the blowing, you have a short to ground somewhere. Keep in mind it could be anything off of that
circuit (not only the head unit). To check it without blowing fuses, have the car off and check
resistance from the stereo power line to ground. You will probably get something VERY low (i.e. <100
ohms). Disconnect/reconnect stuff as necessary from that line until the ground clears (somewhere
>1000 ohms), whatever you just disconnected when it clears is your culpret).
Allyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Collins" <kcollins1@socal.rr.com>
To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 5:43 PM
Subject: electrical issue


> It's been a bad couple of weeks for me and my cars.. first the Passat gets
> crunched by a moronic teenager, now yesterday I picked up a nail in the 'roc,
> which got thru the sidewall and toasted a perfectly good SP8000.  Now I'm
> having to replace a pair so that I don't have 1 new one matched with three
> half-worn ones.  America's Tire lent me a used 205/50/15 Kumho so that I
> could get around while waiting for them to come in, no charge.. cool.
>
> Then last night my stereo blew as I was blasting down the freeway minding
> my own beeswax.  A glance down showed no clock either, so it was obviously
> the fuse.  I yanked the offending fuse and it was rated 25A - checked Bentley
> and stereo/clock/interior lights fuse should be 15A - uh oh, perhaps PO put
> the higher rated fuse in because it was blowing them before?  Anyways 2
> attempts to replace, 1st with a proper 15A then with a 20A when that one
> blew failed; they both blew immediately when inserted.
>
> Any idea where to check?  Nothing monkeyed with electrically in ages, the
> stereo stuff has been there w/o problem for some time.
>
> --
> Kevin Collins
> Huntington Beach, CA
> '86.5 16V 2.0
> '00 Passat GLS 1.8T
>
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