{"id":6110,"date":"2025-12-09T17:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=6110"},"modified":"2025-12-09T19:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:11:18","slug":"more-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=6110","title":{"rendered":"More horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you buy a car that has had many previous owners (and both the Kombis* qualify) you will find some horrors just below the surface (cue Jaws music).<\/p>\n

Like the ABS light “fix” I blogged about earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or this one:<\/p>\n

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  1. Just wrap the wire nice and tight, it’ll hold…<\/li>\n
  2. …then cut them off and abandon them when we don’t need it no more.<\/li>\n
  3. At least this dude had a soldering iron.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All of this much better when covered with various layers of insulation tape of varying quality.<\/p>\n

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    This guy did a slightly better job, he used the back half of a crimp connector to connect his repurposed household twin (i.e. mains) wire to the white\/lilac (being lights) wire to the cluster.<\/p>\n

    And of course I am in here because I am doing my own thing. Hopefully the next owner doesn’t curse me :-) (For the record, solder and heatshrink tubing works for me).<\/p>\n

    * Ah yes I bought two** Kombis. That’s another story.
    \n** Or three, depends on how you count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you buy a car that has had many previous owners (and both the Kombis* qualify) you will find some horrors just below the surface (cue Jaws music). Like the ABS light “fix” I blogged about earlier. Or this one: Just wrap the wire nice and tight, it’ll hold… …then cut them off and abandon them when we don’t need it no more. At least this dude had a soldering iron. All of this much better when covered with various layers of insulation tape of varying quality. This guy did a slightly better job, he used the back half of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-plague-of-t5s","category-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6114,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions\/6114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}