HELP! FUSE QUESTION!!!!!

The reverse light switch must be shorted eh? Since I've owned my bug I've just used a switch under my dash if I needed to see behind me since the previous owner ran a bypass up to there. I will put it right one day.

Remove the reverse light wiring from the ign coil and locate the short in the reverse light circuit! Probably a cut wiring harness or a terminal that is shorthing in one of the light housings. The terminal probably only shorts to ground when the bulb holder is tightly screwed down. Insulate those terminals with electrical tape and slightly bend away from the metal of the fender. If it is not the terminals then inspect the harness esp. at the hole in the front engine shroud. (That metal that is behind the fan housing) Just follow the wiring harness. Oh and put the fuse holder back in the reverse light circuit!!!

later, dave (One out of many Daves)

Your car has been tampered with. There is _no_ fuse for the Ignition.

Somebody has gotten the wiring to the fuse block switched around. While the Blk wire from the Ignition switch *does* go to the fuse block, it simply goes to a brass jumper and back into the Main harness on the way to the Coil. The fuses in position #1 and #2 feed the horn, turn signals, brake lights, wiper.

Go to:

and download the diagram for: 1970 1600 USA de (That will be closest to yours)

The other folks are probably right about a short in the wiring for the backup lights.

After you find the short, look on my web site for: " How to wire the carb (choke and solenoid) to the coil." for the details of the Backup Light wiring in the engine bay.

Speedy Jim

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Sounds to me like somebody has wired the car wrong.

reversed the wiring to the coil.

something of that nature.....and connected the Backup light wire to the wrong side of the coil.

I am quite sure this has been discussed before for some reason as a "Do not do this" type of discussion.

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Usually that would just kill the engine without blowing a fuse AFAIK.

Yes the ign wire to the coil should not have a fuse, but I have seen that before. Esp. when there was a wiring problem that caused the wires to burn up previously.

later, dave (One out of many daves)

I didn't think that VW ever ran the ignition thru any fuse. The backup light SHOULD have its own fuse in an inline holder next to the coil.

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