On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Walter Coe wrote: > I have had very poor luck in the past by connecting cables to batteries > that were not designed to be connected to batteries. Heck, I've had a > hard time even with connectors that were meant for batteries! A little > bit of seeping acid will wreak havoc on them. We'll see how it works. I generally keep those connections coated in a little petroleum jelly to help reduce that problem. How this will work long term remains to be seen of course. > On your installation procedure, you mention that the "bridge" to keep > the low beams on with the high beams is redundant because the DeLorean > keeps the low beams on with the high beams anyway. This is not how the > cars were wired from the factory. I'm suspicious that a previous owner > may have modified your wiring to keep them on. Aaaah. I should know by now never to make assumptions about everyone else's cars based on mine. Previous owners have indeed made a number of modifications to this car (most of them good, saving me money in the long run) and this must be one of them. I will modify the instructions not to make this incorrect assumption anymore. (Dave, you may wish to grab *yet another* copy for the tech section. Sorry, this was unpredictable.) > Did you notice the perfume that Sylvania added to the packaging material? > For the price, they better smell good! :-) No, actually I didn't. Next time I'm outside, I'll be sure to go sniff the box. > When I install my HIDs, I'm going to install an electrochromatic rear > view mirror at the same time. This is the same model that came stock on > my '99 GMC truck. To operate the built in thermometer, there is a > thermistor that mounts in front of and below the radiator, so since I > will be running wires in the area anyway for the HIDs, it makes since to > install the mirror at the same time. I was actually planning to combine the same two installs myself, but my HIDs arrived really quickly and I got too excited to wait. The electrochomatic/thermometer/compass mirror will hopefully arrive soon, and I intend to write up a similar walkthrough for it. -andrew