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Subject: Re: Are US cars negative earth ? Posted on: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:30:26 PDT

Patty Winter wrote:
> In article <32eBe.2176$X71.1530@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net>,
> listener wrote:
>
>>Ill be perfectly honest, I actually didnt want to blow my ipod up when i
>>bring the car charger over and plug it into the rental car,lol
>
>
> :-) Figured it was something like that, involving a rental car.
>
>
>>In the UK ALL new cars and most older ones are Negative Earth (ground) i was
>>just curious that was all as i know sometimes the simplest things are so
>>different between different countries and was pretty sure ide heard of a few
>>posative earthed cars in the US.
>
>
> I'm pretty sure that the old Volkswagen Beetles had positive ground.
> Maybe some other older German cars imported to the U.S. did, too,
> although my '71 Opel GT had negative ground.

I know that the early Beetles were 6V rather than 12V, but I think that
they were still positive ground. There were conversion kits to move to 12V.