[Mgs] Battery drain

[Max Heim]

Not all of us. My newer driver is 1967.

So my routine in the B is, whenever I park, I look at the toggle switches to check they are all facing the same way: OFF.

BTW that is a great user interface feature of the cars of this era (up to the late 60s), that has been lost in modern instrument panels — you can tell all the switches are off at a glance. In most modern cars, every function has a completely different interface design (push/pull/rock/twist) in a different location — you HAVE to have a warning lamp or buzzer or it would be hopeless.


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Max Heim
'66 MGB

> On Jul 18, 2019, at 4:33 PM, Robert's New iPad <mgbobh at gmail.com> wrote:
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>      We are all accustomed to our modern drivers having a buzzer or flashing light to tell us headlamps have been left on, or they automatically shut off the lights.
>     A small buzzer, of the sort some use to sound when turn signals are flashing, is easily rigged between headlamp switch and ignition.  
> Bob
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> On Jul 18, 2019, at 6:32 PM, NA Price via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net <mailto:mgs at autox.team.net>> wrote:
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>> lol, u r all right, I fixed the symptom and the problem, just bend the bulb holder down a little,  now just last week I left my headlights on, my neighbor told me about it, dead battery, jumped the battery and off I went, you can fix the symptom u can't fix stupid.  I got 3 B's one I drive as a daily driver the other two are sitting in a garage,  I drive those two every month or so. I always find myself doing stupid things with all three cars. Still love all three the same
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>>> On July 18, 2019 at 5:28 PM Hans Duinhoven via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net <mailto:mgs at autox.team.net>> wrote: 
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>>> Same as a faulty engine. Get it out en become Fred Flintstone…
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>>>   
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Hans
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>>> Van: Mgs [mailto:mgs-bounces at autox.team.net <mailto:mgs-bounces at autox.team.net>] Namens Max Heim via Mgs
>>> Verzonden: donderdag 18 juli 2019 23:15
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>>> Onderwerp: Re: [Mgs] Battery drain
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>>>  
>>> Well, that’s fixing the symptom if not the problem…
>>> 
>>>  
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>>> Max Heim
>>> 
>>> '66 MGB
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>>> On Jul 18, 2019, at 1:45 PM, NA Price via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net <mailto:mgs at autox.team.net>> wrote:
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>>>  
>>> mine was a simple fix, my trunk light stayed when lowering the trunk lid on took the bulb out problem solved, never had  a problem again   
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>>> n July 18, 2019 at 4:33 PM Hans Duinhoven via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net <mailto:mgs at autox.team.net>> wrote:
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