Re: Smoking dashes...

[DeWitt Harrison <de@aztek-eng.com>]

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 11:21:20 EDT, JG wrote:

>> "What the @#$%%", says I and then I start to smell smoke. Ohh SH*T! 
>
>For years, I've made it a point to leave the ground terminal on the battery 
>loose enough so that I can pull it off without any tools.  In the case of my 
>Ur-Q and 200q, this also means leaving off the screws that hold the rear seat 
>bottom in place as the battery's under the seat.
>
>This way, when the smoke appears, I can cut power to the whole car 
>immediately, then take my time to figure out what's wrong.  Not a perfect 
>solution but effective and cheap...

That reminds me. I've been meaning to mount a big ass battery
cutoff switch in the rear seat kick panel to break the battery
ground under those circumstances. Of course that conjures up
the imagined voice of a back seat passenger asking "What's this?"
Click .... silence ....  "What the @#$%%!"

DeWitt Harrison
Boulder, CO
88 5kcstq