Patty Winter wrote:
> In article <32eBe.2176$X71.1530@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net>,
> listener wrote:
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>>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
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>
> :-) Figured it was something like that, involving a rental car.
>
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>>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.
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> 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. |