After driving the car a little more, I can tell a bit of a difference due to the B+ cable. Now I'm thinking that my headlight issue is mainly due to crappy old reflectors, and not so much an electrical issue. I'm putting a new MAF on the car today. Based on my results from that, I'll decide if it'll...

Autozone says the alternator is fine. He had me crank the car and within 5 seconds said that it passed all of the tests that his little machine does. He also told me that to be 100% accurate, you have to remove the alternator and they'll hook it up to some big fancy equipment and really test it. But...

So I installed the new cable yesterday and took some readings with the voltmeter. The voltage drop has gone from .5v to 30mv. So that seems good. But the symptoms seem mostly unchanged. There may be a bit of improvement, but hardly noticeable. Here's a thread I had come across that pointed me toward...

I ordered the cable this morning. Hopefully I'll have an update by early next week.

-Aaron

I am getting a .5v drop from the battery to the fuse panel. I didn't have time to really open it up to see what the B+ cable looks like, but from what I've read it seems safe to say it needs to be replaced. My ground connections behind the driver's headlight and beside the fuse panel were fairly cor...

Thanks for the info. Good stuff. I will look into it after work and keep this thread updated.

-Aaron

Hi. This is my first post. I've owned my S70 for 12 years, and I love the car, but I need to get it running properly or get rid of it. It has several issues, but I suspect that many of them may be results of one electrical issue. I just don't know what it may be. All of the car's electronics seem to...