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..and the saga continues (rain+fuses)



Oops.. I'm an idiot.

Yes.. clicking every time the wiper engages is perfectly normal. It's
random, erratic clicking that is a sign of something wrong.

-Toby

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, miT wrote:

> That's funny, because others have said that it's completely normal and not
> to worry about it. As far as I can see there is no apparent leak in that
> area but I will definitely check it out on the way to work tomorrow morning.
>
> Thanks for the heads up!
>
> /miT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: T. Reed [mailto:treed2@wsu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 11:37 PM
> To: miT
> Cc: Scirocco List
> Subject: Re: ..and the saga continues (rain+fuses)
>
> Sounds to me like your fusebox got wet.
>
> I had a lot of relay clicking and even visible blue arcing when my
> windshield seal went and let the fusebox fill up with rainwater (this was
> 3 or 4 years ago). Get that checked out before it frys your ECU like it
> did mine.
>
> As others said, it's definitely 15 amps, not 150 amps.
>
> -Toby
>
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, miT wrote:
>
> > Welp, a bad storm has just hit Southern California and I went ahead and
> > bought some fuses to replace the supposed ?blown fuse? for my wipers. When
> I
> > went under the dash where there is a convenient fuse tray + fuse diagram
> but
> > I went ahead and used my Cabriolet diagram I received off the cabby list (
> > HYPERLINK
> >
> "http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~kaw5/electrical.htm"http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~kaw5/
> > electrical.htm ). Now i think he wrote it wrong, it says 150 Amp, but I
> > don?t believe that even exists on a fuse board. So I grabbed a 15 (it
> > matched with the read wiper fuse) and threw it in. It worked, but on the
> way
> > home I noticed that there was a clicking noise coming from the fuse box
> > every time the wiper would engage. Is there something wrong? I don?t want
> my
> > car burning down because I used the wrong fuse or something even worse.
>
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