Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 06:57:46 -0700
Reply-To: Mark McCulley <markmcculley@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Mark McCulley <markmcculley@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: High beam dash bulb
In-Reply-To: <D1651D52.81012%richard_smith@thecdm.ca>
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Most likely a new bulb is all that you need. I could hardly see my high
beam indicator, replacing the bulb was all that was required to make it
bright and visible again, even in daylight.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Richard Smith <richard_smith@gnwc.ca>
wrote:
> I have a VERY dim high beam indicator light - is this something anyone
> else has encountered? Is it an old age thing, and a new bulb would help? A
> wiring issue? (1985 Westfalia GL)
>
> Šr
>
>
> On 2015-04-28, 11:15 AM, "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
>
> >At 10:12 AM 4/28/2015, Dan N wrote:
> >>http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_618_138/dash-light-bulb.html
> >>
> >>On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Nick Feickert
> >><thesuperflydisco@gmail.com>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hello! As I've torn apart my instrument cluster to clean, I discovered
> >> > that the blue (high beam) light which was not working in my cluster
> >>isn't
> >> > an LED, but actually a little bulb. Where can I find a replacement for
> >> > this tiny bulb and then, how to get the two little wires to slide back
> >> > into the housing?
> >> >
> >
> >The light bulb with blue cap is VW p/n 357 919 062 and is used on
> >Quantums, Passats, Jettas, Golfs, Eurovans, Corrados, Cabrios up into
> >mid '90s. It would be a dealer item. It was done this way because
> >blue LEDs did not exist at the time. Now, unfortunately** they do,
> >so you could substitute an LED but you would have to change the load
> >resistor in series with it from 270 ohms to probably between 470 ohms
> >and 1000 ohms for current limiting and to produce the desired light level.
> >
> >**I say unfortunately only because, since they were so late in
> >appearing compared to red, orange, yellow, and green LEDs which all
> >appeared within a few years, when they did show up they were exotic
> >and instantly fashionable in all sorts of unsuitable uses like panel
> >illumination where they cause problems with visual acuity, power
> >indicators where nobody would ever have used a blue incandescent
> >light even though they were readily available since probably the
> >'20s, mood lighting where they are simply ghastly etc.
> >
> >Yours,
> >David
>
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