> There are many things that need to be done to the car's electrical > system (things that go beyond the well known fixes) to make it less > of a toaster in the making. Gary, Since you are a pilot you will probably have something to say about this: I have always admired how airplanes have the wiring protected with panels of reset-able breakers instead of fuses that blow. Despite cleaning my once pristine fuse block and replacing many of the fuses, after the hours of continuous driving from Tampa to Memphis & back, my fuse block has several melted spots -- even two of the 10 amp ones! I would rather put a nice replacement panel in there than have a tangle of pig-tail fuses as is the vendor standard for repair. What do you think about making a panel using CB's? They do things like this in airplanes because they can't afford to be "stranded" in the air. But I don't like the idea that I could get mugged while broke down in a bad neighborhood in a high-profile car. Walt