Date:         Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:21:00 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike <mayfly95@PAONLINE.COM>
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From:         Mike <mayfly95@PAONLINE.COM>
Subject:      Re: intermittent headlight failure
Comments: To: Alan Pickersgill <pickersgill@HOME.COM>
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Same here - ignition switch was the diagnosed culprit ~ $70 dealer installed.

mike
87 westy

Alan Pickersgill wrote:

> >Anybody familiar with this particular situation?
>
> John: I had what sounds like the same problem this past summer on my 1985
> with 200,000 km about the same km as yours. Headlights at first started to
> switch from high to low on their own. Then they would go off.
>
> I was lucky enough to find a good used switch where I was vacationing in
> Newfoundland. I changed both stalks the turn indicator/high-low beam and
> the wiper/washer which it is integrated with.
>
> Two days later the same problem recurred and I ended up travelling at night
> with either no lights or high beam, by holding the high beam in position.
>
> VW dealer in Charlottown Prince Edward Island diagnosed the problem.
> Defective ignition switch. Although the ignition part was never a problem
> and the light problem was intermittent.
>
> Worth checking it out my records show the part cost $47.15 CDN
>
> Alan Pickersgill
> Ottawa, ON
> Canada
> '85 Tranporter - Westfalia conversion
> '89 Golf Diesel
> Alan Pickersgill
> Ottawa, ON
> Canada