Corsa battery removal

I find that very, very difficult to believe... In fact I've got a tenner here that says it's bollocks.

No, I'll just tell you you've got the battery connected the wrong way round. :-)

If I take a picture of it, will you send me the tenner? :)

Peter.

:)

Seriously, it's true (and the car starts fine with it connected as it is!). One of my bosses was fooled by this when it tried to either jump start or by jump started by a Corsa. He must have done something like put the negative jump lead on the engine and the positive lead on the negative terminal thinking it was the positive terminal because of the red battery cable. Apparently it didn't take long for the jump leads to catch fire which deposited molten insulator onto the paint work of his car. He drives expensive sports cars and I imagine was not a happy bunny.

Peter.

Sure it's not brown and black? In German basic car wiring, brown is ground and black live...

It's not been EU standardised like household stuff.

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Ah, yes, I've met cars like that. Singularly moronic, isn't it?

Mmay well have been brown and black, I'm a bit colour blind.... definitely black and a colour with red as a constituent :)

Anyone got the relevant Haynes manual on how to get the drainage grill off? Don't want to buy it just to do this little job!

Peter.

You sure? Any Corsa C I've worked on has had a brown - lead and a black + lead.

See this message in a thread I started :

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Sure it's a duff red, but in the dark with a failing flashlamp, with 4 years dirt, under a car bonnet ...

The consequences for me were about £300 in car rental. :-(

And I can't be the only one to get a "Rodney" award.

DG