RE: [DML] negative earth

["Darkstar" <darkstarmedia@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a 75 Mercedes 450sel that is positive ground.

Darkstar

-----Original Message-----
From: Owen @ Aerodrome [mailto:owen@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: September 29, 2004 2:54 PM
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [DML] negative earth


baseball8819 wrote:
> I noticed by the battery it says that the car is negative earth. What
> does that mean and does it affect the driving or car at all?

It means that the common (or ground or earth) wire that's tied to your frame
is negative, not positive.  Virtually every car in the US, if not the world,
is wired this way, but perhaps in 1981 it was remarkable.

-Owen



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