Based on personal experience, the stuff hits the fan.
Before any of you were born, a brain-dead Marine officer ordered me to install a British air to ground two-way radio in a US amphibious tank. Both used six volt systems but there was not a schematic diagram of the radio; I told the officer that not having a schematic, I thought it unwise to install it though one lead was labeled "ground." He overruled me.
It was a beautiful, part steel, part aluminum (aluminium) chassis, about three feet long, a foot wide and high with a metal toggle switch to turn it on. Before being turned on (before completing the circuit) it was just a handsome piece of equipment bolted to the tank and grounded.
The tank had two Studebaker gas engines and large six-volt batteries.
I cleared the tank, reached in with a broom handle and flipped the switch. I can smell it after 60 years.
British radios had a positive ground. I put a positive ground Motorola radio in my 1953 Austin Somerset four-door Saloon because the Austin had a positive ground.
I do not know what happened to the Peugeot in question but I surely would have an automobile electric technician go over it; a fire or being stranded in a dark parking lot come to mind.
Bernie
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