Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:19:22 -0500
Reply-To: Steven Shelton <shelton4@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Steven Shelton <shelton4@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: heater control lights
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I discovered, after many years of driving my '85 camper, that the "heat"
and "rear vent" control knobs have a raised bump on each side. The other
two knobs are smooth on the sides. This makes it much easier to identify
the controls at night.
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:15 AM, David Milo <dellaone@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was recently (in the last 3 months) able to go to my local VW dealer and
> obtain replacement bulb sockets with replaceable bulbs. You tell them apart
> as the ones you can replace just the bulbs in are white sockets instead of
> black. The sockets themselves have the same type wiring connection, so it
> is simply plug and play.
>
> Dave Milo
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > Its true, we all adjust the controls by feel. But I think it sort of
> > looks better, more right, to have the controls illuminated.
> >
> > Now that it is dark for close to 16 hrs a day here, I need all the cheery
> > lights I can get :)
> >
> > ab
> >
> >
> > On 2011-11-24, at 8:31 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
> >
> > > Amazing! Who'd a thunk that a VW van would ever even have a heater,
> let
> > > alone levers and lights to control said heater. My first one had a
> knob
> > on
> > > the floor that did nothing....I used a smashed beer can in the flap
> under
> > > the back....that turned on the heater all those many years....if the
> > temp
> > > was above about 35f...otherwise? nothin.
> > >
> > > Thanks for showing that, AB. I've always just done mine (vanagon
> heat
> > > controls) 'by feel'......I can feel when the rear vent slide is to the
> > > left, it is drafty on my neck.... I go out with the others slapped all
> > to
> > > the right, then once I get moving, slip the third one down all the way
> > > left...and turn off the blower. Then I end up with the middle two in
> the
> > > middle and the others all the way left...most of the time....
> > > Gee, actually seeing the colors and the tapered graphics, back
> > lit.....I
> > > might get a little more fancy with my adjustments....
> > > Don Hanson
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5 :54 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> for those who were unaware they were there
> > >>
> > >> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/vanagon-heater-control-lights/
> > >>
> > >> alistair
> > >>
> >
>
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