[John M]

Hey Jan:

Considering the burnt wire to the amp and the misplaced jumper cables long enough to burn that wire...you may have fried the wiring up front. Lets hope that is not the case. How long did you have the cables reversed? I would disconnect the amp for sure. If the power wire is fried....it probably is too. And that could very well be your battery drain.

On the code in the computer, it does not clear itself. If the check engine light come on....the code is there. Even after the check engine light goes out....for weeks upon weeks....the code will remain. The car does not have to be hooked up to any computer to read. There is a button on the car's computer to push and then the code is flashed through the check engine light in a series of long and short flashes and pauses. Its a four digit number. You count the short flashes for the numbers and the long pauses seperate the individual numbers.

If you take it to the Alfa shop....and he puts it on his computer to see how the car is running.....it will show fine...providing the check engine light is off. He must pull the code off the computer.

On the oil pressure.....has the gauge completely quit working? If so probably a bad sending unit or disconnected wire to the sending unit. But if you have an alternator going bad...it could make all the gauges read incorrectly or not at all. And when it gets really bad....all the lights on the dash will come on just before she dies completely for lack of electricity.

Keep us posted. Hopefully just an alternator.

Best Regards,
John