RE: Milano Electrical Problem

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

At 2:18 AM -0500 12/30/1, alfa-digest wrote:
>Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:41:43 -0500
>From: "Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>
>Subject: RE: Milano Electrical Problem
>
> > Last evening a problem surfaced on my Milano, which I suspect could be a
> > defective relay and/or short within the electrical system.  The
> > problem goes
> > like this:  when I apply my brakes while the turn-indicator is
> > engaged, the
> > turn indicator ceases to function.
>
>Bad ground at the rear tail lamp.  Applying the brakes pulls the voltage
>'up' at the bad ground, which causes the flasher to stop working.
>
>Undo the ground wire, clean it up real good, and reconnect it.
>
>Just a guess.
>
>bs

This makes sense--my friend's Milano experienced the exact same 
problem last winter but it mysteriously corrected itself when the 
weather warmed up, before I had a chance to fix it.  However, the 
problem hasn't come back with the cold weather this year, and one of 
the things we did to that car over the summer was install oversize 
grounding wires on the rear lamp clusters.

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