Bently on CD Update Again! And Then some!

[chris at westcoastpromos.com (Chris D. Edwards)]

Ok everyone, I want to appollogize again for not getting the CD's off 
right away.  I will be installing a new CD burner tommorrow.  Like they 
say when it rains it pours!!  To boot I am suddenly out of a car to 
drive.  I have been having nightmare electrical issues for a while now 
and they suddenly can to a climax today!!!

I want to sit and completely rewire that whole god damn car!  Why were 
Germans so good at everything but electical!  I mean come on! If you can 
build some of the best alternators and elecrical components on the 
market (BOSCH) why can't you make a freaking fuse box and run wire in a 
way that is easy to trace and fix when there is an issue!  MY RANT HAS 
COME!!!

It all started when one day I lost full voltage to my Heater Fan.  I had 
10 volts not 12.  So I bypassed a redneck wire to plug into the fan 
switch harness to give me full power fan when needed to clear my 
window.  Then after a while suddenly my radiator fan quit and my turn 
signals quit at the same time!  My hazards worked fine so I thought turn 
signal switch...nope!  Couldn't figure that one out after checking 
everything!  I double checked all my under dash grounds and the main 
ground from the battery to the ground cluster was unplugged.  I plugged 
it in and suddenly I had a radiator fan and turn signals.  Huh!  So I 
decided to rewire the keyed power source to my heater fan...I was tired 
of the crappy looking wire hanging out of my dash.  I got rid of my fuel 
relay a long time ago and went with a marine 30 amp toggle switch, so I 
was not using the keyed power source where the fuel relay went so that 
is where I pluged in my 12V power for my heater fan.  Worked great!  All 
was fine for about a week, then today I noticed a funny smell to the air 
coming from my defrost...kinda like hot electrical smelling.  I turned 
my car off and went in a store and when I came out, I turned the key and 
it wouldn't start!  And my freakin turn signal wouldn't work nor my god 
damn heater or radiator fan!!!!  So of course I checked the 
grounds...all were plugged in and tight!  When I started checking 
voltages, the 12V keyed power to the fuel relay plug was now .8 - 1.1V 
(what happened?) still 12V to the constant plug!  Its insane, either I 
have a worthless ground wire with a break in it or the fuse box just 
went to crap!

If anyone actually read this book of a post and has a suggestion please 
help before I get the dikes and go snip crazy!!

Chris Edwards
81 Scirocco JH