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Date:         Thu, 16 Nov 2000 23:01:24 -0500
Reply-To:     "Carrington, Tom" <TCarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Carrington, Tom" <TCarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Subject:      Re: High Beam Indicator
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On my 1987 GL, it was a bulb with a blue cover. I also had the exact same symptom - it was really dim from the burned-up filament bits coating the inside of the bulb.

A new one was about $7 at the dealer, so I stuck in a red LED (with a resistor) it's place.

TomC tcarrington@relitech.com http://www.relitech.com/tomc http://volksweb.relitech.com 85 Vanagon Crew Cab 82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion 81 Checker A-11 (Taxi) 65 Notchback

> -----Original Message----- > From: Karl M. [SMTP:thewestyman@MINDSPRING.COM] > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:37 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: High Beam Indicator > > That blue 'bulb' is actually an LED. On most printed circuits, it is > removeable from it's socket, which is soldered to the circuit. Pull and > wiggle gently and it should pull out of the socket. > > Karl Mullendore > Westy Ventures > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Hi All: > > I am having a problem with my blue indicator for the high beams. It is > incredibly dim. Even in full darkness with the dash lights dimmed you can > barely tell that the indicator is on. I pulled the dash expecting to find > that the LED for the indicator had backed out and wasn't illuminating the > blue lens, and to my surprise the expected LED appears to be a small light > bulb instead. > > Does anyone have experience with this? From looking at the connector for > this bulb it looks like the only way to replace it would be to replace the > entire foil/cellophane printed circuit strip for the dash. > > Anybody got any suggestions? > > TIA, > Dan Weber > Miss Blue - 87 GL Weekender


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