1600 electrics

[Tom Richardson]

Well guys and gals, I just had my first run in with the cops in my 1600... thankfully I remain on the road thanks to an unusually understanding one. It seems that after getting an alarm installed by a certain Adelaide workshop beginning with T and ending with onkins my headlights only work when the car is stationary.  They flicker on and off really fast as the car accelerates, and by the time it hits 60 the lights are out as is the whole instrument binnacle (except for the indicator lights, which are both on solid)  The fuel gauge and temperature guage both go off the scale (which scared the living crap outta me as you could imagine... thought I was out of coolant and crawled home the other night!)   Could this have something to do with the alarm having being spliced into the indicator circuit to give a nice flash when I arm and disarm it or just a plain old shoddy job? Or is this par-for-course for a 29 year old 1600..... has anybody had similar problems?   Oh and sometimes the tacho bounces from left to right!   I swear it was *all* okay before they got stuck into it!!   - Tom   PS thank goodness for mechanical speedo's hehe --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/membersozdat@datascribe.com.au/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------