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Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:28 am

Have you ever seen a VW with an ON/OFF switch in the engine bay for cranking power?
I bought a project and was told the toggle switch near the front drivers seat and the on/off switch in the engine bay hooked to a 12 volt battery are for making more cranking power to the engine?

I am assuming when the engine starts you must have to turn off the switch?
I will take some pics later to show what I mean it is a regular house ON/off switch.

Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:39 am

GreenMeanie wrote:
I will take some pics later to show what I mean it is a regular house ON/off switch.
:shock: =; Please, spare us the pics.

Get that crap OUT of there. The "right" way to do that is with a "hard start relay" kit, but even that is a HACK. A well maintained stock Beetle will start just fine; otherwise they wouldn't have been able to sell twenty one million of them.

Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:14 am

If you put the switch to the OFF position it cranks the engine over with no key LOL.
I have to post pics just so people can have a good laugh.

Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:43 am

It could have been someone's way to crank the engine over while working on it - for like compression tests.

Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:38 pm

glutamodo wrote: It could have been someone's way to crank the engine over while working on it - for like compression tests.

I have one of those remote start push button things you just clip on. It seems pretty odd to mount a switch for that purpose.

Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:11 pm

Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:12 pm

I kinda like it. Sure it's a "hack", but it looks period correct and the switch has sort of an "industrial flare" to it. :P

Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:26 pm

That's. Amazing.

Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:43 pm

Very subtle..... love it! :P

Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:52 pm

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