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On a bug, the battery sits under the backseat and negative bolts to the chassis. The 12V positive cable goes directly to the starter motor.
Here's what im thinking. I once helped a friend out with an old BMW where he saw a red and a black cable. He hooked the battery up red to POS, black to NEG. He fried the electrical system. After looking at it, I realized that the red cable was actually brown. He thought that the red had faded to that color. On German cars, Black is 12V and brown is ground.
Can you post a picture? If I recall correctly, the NEG cable should be a braided strip.
One other thing, Does the car have an alternator or a generator? I seem to remember having to modify the wiring on a few bugs because the original generator was no longer available and an alternator had to be used. I think that some alternators back in the day had to be polarized before you used them.
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