Re: [alfa] 72 GTV with electrical gremlins

["Paul Bayly" <thebaylys@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Silly question, but have you swapped batteries ?

 I had similar problems years ago in a 116 GTV which had a collapsed cell in
the battery, which I suspect was from overdoing the battery clamp.

Once underway it ran beautifully until I had lights,stereo and wipers going
but when I pressed the horn the car just cut dead and almost sent me off the
road !!

Beatle
Ozn

> > I have a 72 GTV with some major electrical gremlins.
> >
> > Half of the time the car is completely dead and will only
> > start when jumped.  Other times it's fine.
> >
> > Sometimes when the car is off and I turn on the headlights,
> > the headlights will only come on after a few seconds,
> > sometimes immediately, sometimes not at all.  In any case, it
> > doesn't seem ignition switch related because of this symptom
> >
> > Suspecting the ground cable from the battery, I replaced it
> > over the weekend, and subsequently blew $5.99.
> >
> > Any ideas where I should look for the short?  Maybe hire some
> > sort of exorcist?
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