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    Quote Originally Posted by MauiM3Mania View Post
    Care to share with everyone as to the solution?
    As everyone knows, these cars have a yellow detonator on the positive side of the battery terminal at the end of the terminal's female port for the male positive end. The PO has snipped the detonator and grounded it separately to the chassis. Not a bad way to do it, only the connection between the male/female positive terminal ends can get iffy. I cleaned them off with sandpaper, reconnected everything and she's good to go. The ground the PO had going wasn't the greatest, so a washer and new bolt did the trick.
    01/98 Porsche 996.1 911 - 2/6 - Current
    '03.5 M3 2/6 - Arizona bought - Wrecked 09/2018
    '06 WRX fully built/6 - Sold
    '95 323is/5 - Sold
    '95 325i/5 - Sold
    '01 540i/6 - Sold
    '03.5 M3 2/6 - Sold
    '02 M3 vert/6 - Sold
    '98 Cosmos M3/2/5 - Stg 2 AA Supercharged - Sold
    '98 M3/2/5 - Sold

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