[OT] B3 Passat Electrical issues... Oh gurus, help me!

[jarrett at rpa.net (jarrett@rpa.net)]

I've heard of this technique to diagnose electrical gremlins -

When you do this, do you leave the fuse in, or are you working one fuse at a time - put in, check, pull out?

--- scirocco16vr32@gmail.com wrote:

From: "Chris Bennett" <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com>
To: "jarrett@rpa.net" <jarrett@rpa.net>
Cc: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>, sciroccodriver@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [OT] B3 Passat Electrical issues... Oh gurus, help me!
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:01:55 -0700

YOr... you could do the painful way and pull all the fuses.  Pull all
the fuses and put one in at a time.  Put the headlight fuse in... do
the headlights work?  What else comes on?  Take notes, pull the fuse
again and go to the next one.  You are going to run into weird shit
sooner or later.  Typically there aren't that many MAJOR circuits in a
car.  The average number of fuses in a car is like 20 or so right.
Sure there are sub-circuits but they piggyback the bigger ones right?