Did I goof??? *LOL*

[Greg Galinsky]

David Conner wrote:

> Probably the anti-theft system thinks you are trying to steal the car ...
> among other things I believe it disables the starter circuit.
> 
> Try locking the door with the key and then unlocking... maybe this will
> reset the system.  
> 
> An alternative would be to remove the anti-theft relay and insert a jumper
> wire in it's place.  This is what I did to my 89 100 cause I didn't care
> about the anti-theft feature and it was acting up ... intermittent no-start
> condition due to an electrical glitch somewhere in the anti-theft system
> (maybe in the relay itself).
> 
> BTW ... are you serious re: the insurance company caring whether the
> battery was disconnected?  Did they actually tell you that or were you just
> thinking it couldn't hurt?
> ------------------
> Dave C.
> _______________________________________________
> quattro mailing list
> quattro at audifans.com
> http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/quattro
> 
That is the typical way the alarm system reacts.  The owners handbook 
has a very detailed system of how to rearm the system. I'm out of cars 
with alarms now; and don't want to guess off the top of my head.  But 
the same situation happened to me with a 1990 90Q.  Was no big deal to reset

Greg Galinsky
G & G Service