Gremlins
09/15/2018
While owners of fifties and sixties cars are mainly afraid of rust and mechanical defects, it's the electronic problems that tend to cause sleepless nights or at least a bit of trouble for youngtimers. People like to talk about "gremlins" and refer to the Joe Dante film "Gremlins - Little Monsters". It was about cute little animals that turn into real monsters when exposed to water, sunlight or the wrong meal times.
Electronic problems usually announce themselves harmlessly, almost unnoticed. The day before yesterday, for example, I was driving my BMW Z3 Coupé and was amazed to see that the amount of fuel in the tank had miraculously multiplied. I had set off with an almost empty tank, but after a few hours in the sun the fuel gauge showed almost "half full".
Some "gremlins" turn out to be mechanical problems in the end; in the case of the Z3, it is also conceivable that there is a fault with the float mechanism in the tank.
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