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Tue 5 Mar 2013 10:25

Golf mk3 2.0i cabriolet - Car won't spark - speedfreak

Hi all, I've got a right pain in the a*** fault,I bought a nicely modified 2.0 golf cabriolet to finish off and sell just before our glorious summer came,however the other day I'm fitting a very nice iPod stereo into the car, so I locate the heavily abused wiring and proceed to solder an iso connection on to make life a lot more simple, the permanent wire breaks away and decides to rub itself onto the earth wire and I hear a pop from the passenger footwell. So I start to look for a fuse box and find it located in the driver footwell mmmmm, however every fuse is fine but now I have 3 problems 1/ car will not spark it will only spark turning key to accessorie position and when turning key off again however the car will spark only the one spark if I flick the key and i can manage to start it but it takes ages i have to catch it just right lol ,then theres number 2/ I have no permenant live to the stereo and 3/ the cooling fan will not work however before the pop noise happened everything was fine please help before I take a very large hammer, and beat it repeatedly till I'm smiling

Edited by speedfreak on 05/03/2013 at 10:31

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