ELECTRICAL DEFECTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 3075, 5 November 1929, Page 2

ELECTRICAL DEFECTS.

EASY TO EXPECT THE WORST.

In attention to simple details connected with the electrical equipment of a car will often cause considerable inconvenience to the driver, to say nothing of the cost occasioned by such negligence. It is quite easy to blame the dynamo for the lack of output, when the instrument itself is in perfect order. Sometimes one will continue to exhaust the battries, which are not receiving any charge from the dynamo, simply owing to the failure of a lead carrying the current to the switchboard. When a defect of this kind arises, the most natural tendency is to rush the car off to the garage or to a service station where electrical repairs are carried out, but as a matter of fact it is quite a simple matter to trace out the various wires to ascertain whether they are in good condition and thus perhaps discover the cause of the trouble before putting the car in dock for so simple a reason.. Sometimes a small length of insulation tape wound round a cable that has become chafed through, will save putting the car temporarily out of service?, and therefore it is desirable to make sure that a simple repair cannot be carried out in the home garage, before having to interview the staff of the service depot about details that could be put right in a fewminutes by one's own efforts.

Host: It's beginning to rain; you'd better stay to dinner. Motoring Visitor: Oh, thanks very much, but it's not bad enough for that.