[Vwdiesel] Lucas Electrics

[Herold, Walter L]

Lucas has always been known as "The Prince of Darkness"

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From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On Behalf Of Gerry Wolfe
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:24 PM
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Lucas Electrics

"The Brits drink warm beer because Lucas also makes refrigerators".

Bumper sticker on an older Healey: "Parts falling off this vehicle are of 
the highest British quality".

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <decker at toledotel.com>
To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:10 PM
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Electrics was Re: 95 Jetta TD Fuse panel wiring


>
>> > Remind me to stay away from VW forevermore.
>> > >
>>   Pretty much any car with the "european" lighting will do the same
>> thing. Sorry, VW doesn't have an exclusive on bad electricals.
>> Apparently not enough Lucas equipped owners in this group!
>>   Feedback is less likely on the american lights where brake and turn
>> bulbs are shared since they can't then feedback through the other
>> one.
>>      Loren
>>
>    Loren's thoughts on Lucas eletrics leads me to my younger days when I
> was more car crazy than now. In the middle 60's I bought what in my 
> opinion
> is probably the prettyist car ever made. It was a 1958 Lancia Aurealia 
> Gran
> Tourisamo Spyder 2 seater convertable. It had an alloy V6 in the front 
> along
> with the clutch. It drove the rear wheels through a Porsche licence
> transaxle in the rear. It had eletrical problems all the time and I took 
> it
> to more than one shop and asked if they would work on it. The mechanic 
> would
> ask what kind of electrics? and I would say Magnetti Morelli. The absolute
> imediate answer was Oh God. I finaly got tired of fighting it and jumped
> from one frying pan to another. I traded it in on a 1962 Lotus Elite 
> Coupe.
> A full monoque fiber-glass body including a fiberglass backbone. No steel
> for Colin Chapman. It was basiacly his Formula two road racer made
> technicaly street legal It weighed 1300 lbs and had a 78 horse Coventry
> Climax engine. It was the best handaling car I have ever owned. It was
> English and the coupe leaked like a sieve. The electrics were lucas and 
> the
> only good thing about that even though they are totaly unreliable is they
> speak English. I finaly came to my sences and bought a 1958 Porshe coupe.
> German engeneering, German body, and best of all German Bosch electrics.
> Brian Decker
> 1981 VW Dasher diesel
> 1981 VW Rabbit pickup gas
> 1990 VW Passat 16 valve
> 1983 Mitsubishi 2.3 turbo diesel 4 wheel drive pickup
> Many other rigs in Project mode
>
>
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