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Date:         Sat, 24 Jun 1995 06:09:36 -0400 (EDT)
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From:         Frank Condelli <ad793@freenet.carleton.ca>
Subject:      '87 Westy water pump/fridge relay ?

Yes, you read that right, relay for the water pump/fridge main power line. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS RELAY ALL ABOUT ? Sorry for the shouting but this one does not make any sense to me. In the storage box under the drivers seat of my '87 Westy there is a relay sending power to the camper waterpump and the fridge. The damn relay is in the way of putting stuff in the storage box and it got hit and shorted out frying all the wires to the main fuse box under the dash and even fried numerous wires that were near by under the dash. After spending several hours cleaning up the mess and replacing and repairing all the affected wires I went to my "Friendly Neighborhood VW Dealer" to get a new relay, after the shock of hearing the $95 price for this relay and complaining loudly the service people finally came up with another relay that would do the same job for $30. How about that ? Well, even $30 is a bit much for a simple relay don't ya think ? Anyways, I go put the relay in and find that the relay is "on" all the time and can not figure out why the relay is there in the first place. I've looked in the Bently wireing diagrams and there is no relay indicated. A call to the local dealer service dept. to have him look in his wireing diagrams and nothing showing there either. The relay does look as if it was there from the factory as all the connectors seem to be official VW type connectors and all the wires going to the fuse panel under the dash go to coded conennectors. So, I presume that it was not some PO yahoo that installed this thing. But why would VW put a relay in a line that needs to be powered all the time ? There is no need for this relay as far as I can deduce. Anyone out there come across this before or know of what I speak ? HELP PLEASE ! It's driving me crazy or maybe I've always been like this and never realized it before.

Cheers

Frank

-- * Frank Condelli * Kinburn, Ontario, Canada * * ad793@Freenet.carleton.ca *


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