At 08:55 AM 9/19/97 -0700, you wrote: >Chris, I'm having the same problem with my 86 Syncro. I thought it would >be the ignition switch so I tried moving it a little to see if the lights >would come on, didn't. So then I tried jiggling the rocker switch for the >lights and found that if I moved the switch slightly back form the "on" >position the lights would come on. I suppose I'll have to buy a new >switch someday. > You *CAN* take these apart & rebuild them - done it 3 times so far on our various VW's (sorta like door handles...they seem to all be the same, including Audis!). Annyhow, by 'rebuilding' I don't mean buying new internals, just that they may be 'unsnapped' & if you're carefull re where all the little springs etc go you can clean up the contacts, reverse the slider bar, slop on a little contact enhancer, snap back together & they'll go another 100K. Austin ps - beats the ~$70 the dealer gets for my latest 'switch' - a '92 GTI. |
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