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Subject:Help: Wierd electrical gremlin
From:Erik Feddersen
Date:Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:53:01 -0500

Hi,

Thanks for all those helped on my OXY sensor question.

Heres a new one!  I've owned the car about a week  so not much history
and yes its possible my brain didn't do as much checking on the car as I
should have (it was that vw bus brain short circuit syndrome :-)  The
only thing I can say is that for one day I drove at night and everything
was normal, now we have a problem and heres the scenario...

OK, Start the car, put the lights on and heres the first puzzler, the
high beam indicator light is on BUT only the low beams are lit, toggle
the high beam indicator light out, and high beams are go on.  Theres
more.  Also when I put the lights on, the tach and clock go dead and I
get the idiot lights from oil and radiator to light up.

Any hints out there..  I'm thinking a missing ground somewhere up in the
instrument cluster,

Happy Holidays

Erik