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Curb! Thunk! Damn everything got brighter!



Are you sure you didn't bust your voltage regulator?
I had mine fail once and everything got real bright!
I'd check voltage at the battery with the revs at about 2K.
Should be around 14v
Dan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "calimus" <calimus@techography.net>
To: "Scirocco-l" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 12:42 AM
Subject: Curb! Thunk! Damn everything got brighter!


> Well, Over the last three years, I've done a lot of things to the electrical
> system to help the electrons do their job.  And for a good while I thought I
> had done just about everything I could do and was happy with the outcome.
> However, tonight, I found that I missed something somewhere and that I
> shouldn't have settled.
> 
> I was at a Monthly VW GTG that some Atlanta dub owners have.  This isn't a
> real club, just a bunch of people with Dubs and Audi's that like to get
> together and check out stuff and chat (had 3 other members of the .org crew
> representing besides myself).  Only now we do it in 30 degree weather and
> 20mph winds (sick aren't we).  So after after an hour and a half we all
> deside to stop freezing and leave.  So I'm pulling outta the parking lot and
> I wasn't paying attention to the fact that my right front tire was actually
> going to drop from the curb to the road, so thats what happened.  So the
> thunk schocks the hell outta me cause I wasn't expecting it, my foot gets
> slammed on the throttle, the road is wet so I do a burn out as I cross 4
> lanes of inner city highway (luckly there was virtually no traffic).  It was
> pretty damn cool now that I think about it.  Anyway, I get about 10 miles
> down the road and I notice that there is a really bright light coming from
> the lower right side of my center console.  I look over and find it's my oil
> temp guage.  What is normalled a slightly dim yellow light is now bright
> freaking white.  I also notice that my headlights are brighter (Euro's with
> H4's) and my speedo cluster is easier to read.  Hot damn the car fixed
> something on it's own!
> 
> Now it's really bugging the hell outta me cause I thought I had found all my
> issues and I'm worried that this won't last.  So pretty much as soon as I
> finish my wifes cabby project, I'll be tearing into the electrical system
> once again to try and find what I might have missed.
> 
> William Snyder
> 
> 88' Scirocco 16v
> 89' Cabriolet 8v
> 71' Karmann Ghia
> 
> 
> 
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