Dr Zoidberg wrote:

Now this is a total mystery to me. It seems to vary from week to week the
situations in which it will and won't power up and I'm checking all the
connections with a multimeter and it *is* getting power. Why should it be
happy with 12v in one place and not in another?

It's that dodgy Czech build quality.

Should have bought a proper VW rather than a cheap Commie copy ;-)
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