New Vintage Speedster w/212 miles

Living on the east coast, had my Speedster shipped from Kirk in February, but have just been able to start driving. When I drive car and use radio car is fine, but when I turn on the headlights the radio turns off and it has cut off on me in rush hour traffic. When I shut the car down, it will not restart. If I put it on the battery charger, it fully charges in minutes and everything works fine while still connected to charger. Don't want to drive in daytime only. Any suggestions. Thanks.

John

John, Call Kirk. He has been very helpful with advice about my VS.

You will most likely have to take it in to a shop and have additional wiring and fuses split out and auxillary fuse boxes added. Too much load on too little a system has been my experience with Vintage wiring! Sounds like you also have what we used to call a dead short somewhere in the wiring.

Ask Kirk if he will compensate you for the work you need done as your car is so new! Oh and check the high beam low beam switch on the column if you have one...mine was killing the lights altogether.
P.

John, I don't understand why you have problems fitting in your car with the top up; I'm 6'4" and can drive my IM with the top up and have head clearance. My seats are IM's Speedster bucket replicas that are fairly low...

Took it to shop and there was some loose wiring connections. Fixed for under $200.00 and was refunded the money from Kirk with no questions asked. Kirk is first-class and anyone considering purchasing a replica should only use Kirk.

That's good John. I had the same problem last year. Turned out the battery terminal had a flat spot and needed to be tightened. The car was running on the generator which gives enough power but with radio and lights it needs to drain from the battery as well. Turned out the flat spot was keeping the battery from getting return power and draining. If I stepped on the brakes or anything else electric the radio would cut off.....then on.... finally the car would die. DROVE me nuts. Fixed with a crescent wrench ON A NEW BATTERY, I was tired of this problem.

I remember when I was in high school, I went out with a girl who had a Beetle sedan which was a "fixer-upper" that her Dad had worked on. I put her Dad in a similar "tool challenged" class with Tim Allen on "Tool Time".

Once, after he had "fixed that problem in the bug's electrical system", we found that when she had the radio on AND turned the headlights on high beam, the windshield wipers would start and wouldn't stop until both the lights and the radio were turned off.

Didn't want to touch that one.......took him MONTHS to figure out what he had done wrong.