JMR said:
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a problem on a BMW 740il with a rear harness the dealer had replaced because of corrosion due to the battery. ...Snip... Unfortunately a hidden ground was not tightened.
Ha! Good one... Apologies for the hijack, but I gotta tell this one....
One of my bestest friends here runs a shop that specializes in repairs of old British cars. He works mostly on TR's and Jags, but does other stuff as well. A client brought in a Morgan that he'd just bought at auction for some repairs. Amongst other ills, there was a lot of electrical stuff that didn't work, like front turn signals, dash lights, etc.
JK started in on it, and found that the components were working and had +12v coming to them, they just didn't seem to be grounded. He traced the front wiring harness and found... You guessed it!!! Some previous owner had replaced some wiring and had attached a (shortened) ground wire to part of the ash
wood subframe!!!
Honest!!! Who could make this stuff up????
JDK
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