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You can usually mount watch batteries any way up you like otherwise the currents would fall out when you put you hand in your pocket!

I believe you can run your kettle with enough watch batteries but as they are DC and the kettle needs alternating current you will need to turn it on and off dead quick while it boils!

So if I use a smoke alarm battery and 2 AAs this would almost definitely fit under my seat!

Mine seems to work ok, is that because it's connected to the one that was already there? If I where to buy yours could I replace both of mine? Does it fit under the seat?

I just use a normal vehicle battery myself, I've been told there's no difference!

What Mocki said about cracks, I've seen too many heads and they all seem to have them tragically. You are probably out of luck on the issue of free work also. Unless something they have done and invoiced you for has come undone or never really has been done then they don't need to give you any conce...

Mystery over. Apparently Tom Hanks has just outed himself as the latest Celeb' T25/T3/Vanagon owner on the David Letterman show. America just had to know what a Syncro was.

I'll go back to sleep then.

Top of the list this morning was the term "Volkswagen Syncro".

Anyone know why? Peak was around 21:00 PDT.

Thanks folks. I have wiggled and scrubbed and reinsulated all over the shop and now the light has gone out. The splattergun approach means I have no idea what caused it in the first place. If it reoccurs I will check my alternator output first off (this would make perfect sense as the alternator lig...

Thanks guys, I'll get my scrubby out and start checking all the earths. It has just sat for 18 months without moving

Yea, swapped it for the one from the syncro, no change.

I wish I knew what it was supposed to be telling me i.e temp it comes on at, resistance of sensor, which sensors, etc.

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help. It's a diesel van 1987 vintage and the water light is flashy flashing. It started intermitant with faint flashing, full flashing and steady on. Now it's it's steady strong flashing (except when it isn't) after me wagling everything. The temp guage seems to be behavin...

I've thought about the wheel thing, those square wheels that caravaners use in the winter. You have to be careful with a syncro though, I believe if you drive it with a mix of aquare and round it'll wind up the VC. There have to be loads of electrical and a few mechanical ways of imobilising any van...

I don't know if there is a way to stop them, there was one nicked local to me didn't even have an engine and was buried under a pile of scrap, how imobile is that?

I gather rob's vacuum pump is turning and indeed once it's going it works just fine. Just doesn't do anything at first when started from cold.