Poll - Go mk2? was: Replacement Fuse Panel

[spewey at comcast.net (Spewey)]

Jeff Toomasson wrote:
> The level of difficulty doesn't bother me...
> What say you Scirocco world?? :)

I think it's nutzoid to even consider rewiring a whole car but some 
people here apparently do it.  Most gremlins are either IN the fuse 
panel, AT the big plugs that plug into it, or IN the big plugs.  They 
get wet, the copper corrodes, and the corrosion shorts things out 
intermittently.  Wires and connections elsewhere can get pinched or 
heated but that doesn't screw up the whole car, just one thing.
Here at the panel, the brake light wire can be right next to the blinker 
fluid warning sensor overheat klaxon.

Most fuse panels I have in my pile have little bits of blue corrosion 
someplace on the back.  It used to be that new panels were much more 
than $100 even wholesale and they are a pain to do but still much easier 
than stringing and soldering all 200 wires.  Sheesh.  If you have a new 
panel from Julie, try that first.  And clean off any of the big plugs 
that have any corrosion and push the wires in real good.