"...and now all the wires and connectors are 25 + years old...."� Scott Turbovans

Volks,

Does it makes sense as proactive maintenance to search around for every connector in my Vanagon and plug & unplug several times, wipe contacts with a thin film of di-electric grease on a Q-tip, and then plug & unplug several times more to promote fresh connectivity and impaired corrosion?� 

I mean, I hear so much about bad contacts and grounds and such, it seems like this would be a good thing, an easy thing.� 

By the way, with all the recent rain in Southern California these days, my telephone seems "scratchy" and my internet connection went from normal 2.5 MBs to 0.7 MBs (DSL); so I was plugging and unplugging things to try and fix and improve.� It worked.

Ideas?

Rich
San Diego