John,

If you think 80's Jeeps are bad, may you never have the pleasure of working
on older British cars.  Yikes!  What an electrical nightmare.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of John Runberg
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 10:31 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Summer's coming and my van is getting hotter than ever!!

> Vanagons have the worst electrical systems i have ever seen in a vehicle,
> very very prone to failure, very poor engineering, germans can be idiots
> too!
Whoa - you haven't seen an 80s Jeep then! In fact, many 80's vehicles (at
least in the US) have dubious electrical systems. This topic came up a few
months ago, IIRC, and one explanation was insufficent grounding due to
engineers not understanding the demands of FI completely. Cleaning the
grounds can help alot.

I wonder if that Radioshack IR thermometer is still on sale...

john