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• Re: HIGH POWERED HEADLIGHT
  Historical mailing list - KIM BRENNAN
  Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:52:58 -0500
  ...Is there a source for ceramic connectors? I > have an 86 and it works OK with 4 100 watt high beams and two 80...
• Re: upgrading 86-up headlights
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Wed, 24 Jul 1996 08:15:50 PDT
  ...Is that correct? > Only if you drive with highbeams all the time. The low beams *suck*. They're even worse than my Jetta. By...
• Re: No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:47:27 -0700
  ...No High Beams > > >> Chromeplate your rear hatch. ;-) >> >> BenT >> >> Sent from my mobile device >> >> On Sep 28, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen...
• Re: H4 European Headlight report
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Wed, 13 May 2009 06:55:03 -0700
  ...use the high beams the most they are normal� and a little extra umph on the highway with the 100W high beams and the...
• Re: No Headlights or Turnsignals but Markers OK Update 2
  Historical mailing list - Cunegonde
  Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:16:08 -0700
  Nope, no low beams at all now, passenger or driver. Another new issue is the highbeam dash idiot light isn't working. Isn't...
• Re: Headlights
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:24:46 -0400
  ...The relationship > between the COB center of beam between high and low is a compromise on > installations where the mounting center of the lens...
• Re: headlights (all) - poof!
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:34:24 -0700
  ...Key off, headlight switch on, "flashing" hi beams, it looks like power can come back from 56 of high beam switch, to 56 of...
• I fried something (front heater blower)
  Historical mailing list - John Baker
  Sat, 1 Dec 2001 12:21:03 -0500
  ...As this happens, I notice that my high beam\low beam switch on the headlites no longer changes the brightness of the lights. I...
• Re: Headlights
  Historical mailing list - Karl
  Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:58:01 -0700
  ...The high beams fail more > often than the low beams but they both do it. By pulling the switch stalk > on the steering column...
• Headlight improvements IMHO
  Historical mailing list - James S. Cohen
  Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:49:09 -0500
  ...You'll still have hot spots and poor beam distribution. Third: I HATE being blinded by oncoming cars with high Watt bulbs! (okay, I...
• Re: Headlight's wont come on (relay bad?)
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:12:10 -0800
  ...It was in the low beam high beam switch. I removed the steering wheel and un plugged the turn signal switch and wiper switch...
• Re: Ignition Switch Mystery Continues...anybody out there????
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:00:10 -0500
  ...beams quite working and the only way > to keep the high beams on was to hold the lever in. > > Next day the high beams...
• Re: SA Quad Round Headlight Grille kits FS!
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:01:45 EST
  ...you keep your stock hi-low beams..................the inner light is a DRIVING LIGHT....... want a higher powered hi-low headlight? get some H4...
• Re: South African Grille headlight conversion on an 84 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:05:31 -0400
  ...outers - high/low beam; inners - high beam. >> >>If the gauge of the headlight wiring is the same in the '84 as in the '86...
• Re: headlights (all) - poof! - continued...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:22:13 -0400
  ...They both click >when I pull on the high-beam lever. That says to me that they are >getting power from the high-beam...
• Re: High beam indicator bulb. replace it with LED
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:43:18 -0400
  ...This is with actually turning on the high beams by pulling the turn signal stalk toward me. advice or ideas appreciated Edward On Sun...
• Re: Pzwo lower grille foglights NLA
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:48:10 +1300
  ...her high beams >at the victim to prove to the victim he or she doesn't have his or her high >beams on-- this...
• Re: Those h4 led bulbs again
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Mon, 13 Feb 2017 07:29:24 -0400
  ...I love the low power draw, I still get a kick out the instant on and instant high beam effect ( yeah, I'm easily...
• Low Beams out, Where to Look?
  Historical mailing list - LOREN BUSCH
  Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:53:55 -0800
  ...No low beams on the headlights. With switch on, ignition on, all other standing lights come on (tail lights and marker lights). High and...
• Re: Hella H4/why such different prices?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:09:31 -0400
  ...4.Do they all have a high and low beam? The H4 bulb has high- and low-beam filaments. >5. Are they worth having...
• Re: Vanagon grilles and lights
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Sun, 23 Jan 2000 08:07:59 -0800
  ...Plus, with the high beams (and the >low beams) on, when I turn on the XLs it really lights up the winter >landscape. It...
• Headlamp substitution
  Historical mailing list - Roger Bowman
  Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:20:43 -0800
  ...The rectangular high beam/low beam headlamps on my '89 syncro ARE or ARE NOT directly replaceable by the 200mm H4 units? Since I...
• Re: electrical experts: what do you think of this?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 4 Mar 2001 23:07:23 -0500
  ...You'll need 30-amp fuses on each high-beam circuit, though -- I don't know whether the fuse holders are rated for that...
• Re: electrical experts: what do you think of this?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 4 Mar 2001 23:07:23 -0500
  ...You'll need 30-amp fuses on each high-beam circuit, though -- I don't know whether the fuse holders are rated for that...
• Re: No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:17:19 -0700
  RE: > > They only come in 5A, 8A, 16A or 25A ratings, I thought. Do 86 - 91 > Vanagons use a different fuse type? Yep, use...
• Re: Hella E-Codes vs. Vision Plus?
  Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
  Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:50:33 -0400
  ...High beam is 6000K (pure white) > > > > > > I believe the closest to pure white is either 4300k and 5000k (the ones > I'm > > using). 6000k...
• More Headlights
  Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
  Fri, 13 Mar 1998 20:14:45 -0500
  ...The high beams were awesome. The question then is... has anyone else noticed this similarity and are the e-code Scirocco lights (still available...
• Re: Eurospec Rectangular headlights
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:52:06 -0700
  ...I even managed to break a mount on one of the high beams in the process. Luckily I had purchased two complete sets including...
• Re: Head lights
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sat, 9 Jan 2010 22:13:29 -0500
  ...The extra highbeam you'll have to switch the electrical connector for the highbeam. If you go and of the above routes you'll...
• Re: High beam LED blue light
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 31 Dec 2003 06:54:03 EST
  ...The blue high beam indicator light is not an LED but an incandescent bulb and does burn out. All the other indicator lamps are...
• Re: Headlight Upgrade: New Circuit and Switch?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:44:58 -0800
  Both high and low are normally supplied by that same #12 white/black wire. The #16 red wire is for a different purpose, the...
• Re: Led headlamps as auxiliary lights
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:35:14 -0800
  ...And I liked the low beam pattern and brightness. The high beams I think lack something, and I noted that in my previous experiments...
• 87 vanagon headlight bushing
  Historical mailing list - Sidney White
  Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:16:42 EST
  ...I have them both on high and low beam? Sid Vicious
• E code headlights
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Wed, 5 Jul 2006 22:20:51 -0700
  ...The high beam light on the right is upside down in the metal frame. Anyone know how to turn this thing over? Mike
• Re: 12 Volt + Wire Up Rear Pillar? (vent)
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:59:14 -0700
  ...I have myself had a pistol pointed at me for giving a >> high-beam overtaker a dose of my own high beams after he...
• Re: High beam blue light? P/N
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:01:14 -0700
  Some time back I asked: >Any one know what bulb I'd need to replace the blue hi beam on bulb on an '84...
• Re: Gah. Inspections
  Historical mailing list - Dylan Spurgin
  Fri, 9 Aug 2002 00:57:40 -0500
  ...The laws in this state (Virginia) have changed and FOGLIGHTS >MUST GO OUT WHEN HIGH BEAMS ARE ENGAGED! So my Projectzwo foglights will have...
• Instrument Cluster Woes
  Historical mailing list - Michael Diehr
  Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:41:04 -0800
  ...High beam LED glows dimly. (if i turn on high beams, the LED goes OUT, ironically) Cluster illumination lights off. If i rotate the...
• HID light upgrades - anyone try them?
  Historical mailing list - mordo
  Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:38:44 -0500
  ...type of kit >- low beam only, dual bulb HID for high an low, mechanically moving HID >bulb for high and low or the HID...
• higher power low beams
  Historical mailing list - Sean Birkner
  Wed, 8 Dec 1999 13:27:59 EST
  A while back, someone on the list mentioned making a kit so that using higher wattage headlight bulbs wouldn't melt the switch. They...
• Re: another angle on high-wattage headlight bulbs
  Historical mailing list - Kim
  Tue, 12 May 1998 20:15:07 EDT
  ...The poor performance of the rectangular lights (especially the low >beams) is why there are so many threads about using higher wattage bulbs. > This...
• Re: Looking for LED Equivalent High Beam Indicator Bulb
  Historical mailing list - Ed Duntz
  Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:57:29 -0500
  ...Looking for LED Equivalent High Beam Indicator Bulb > Hi everyone, > > I am Looking for an LED Equivalent High Beam Indicator Bulb. > > I was told...
• How do you replace the bulb - WAS - RE: High beam blue light?
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:37:54 +0000
  I've been following the original thread today because the high beam blue light bulb in my 87 Westy died a while ago...and...
• Re: HEADLIGHTS on HOLIDAY!
  Historical mailing list - mike
  Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:14:48 -0400
  ...high-beam indicator light as well as > the parking lights come on when the switch is turned on. [Since the high and > low beams...
• Re: Headlight rewiring
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:21:44 -0400
  At 01:13 PM 8/7/2002, KimBrennan@aol.com wrote: >First the low beam/high beam connection to the H4, looks to the...
• Headlight Alternatives for 89 Carat
  Historical mailing list - robertmstewart
  Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:28:14 -0400
  ...low beam headlights for high wattage bulbs - 400 watts on high beam with installing a 15 amp fuse on the high beam circuit with...
• Re: Combo Driving and Fog Light Hookup
  Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
  Thu, 3 May 2001 10:44:54 -0700
  ...For driving lights, the wiring is basically the same, except you hook up the switch to a high-beam lead by the headlamp or...
• Re: So... what is the answer for these poor lights?
  Historical mailing list - Bill N
  Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:51:14 -0700
  ...If the aux switch is on, then the center driving lights come on and off with the high beams. With the eurospec outer lights...
• Re: Headlight rewiring
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:00:10 -0400
  ...The E-code has IMO a highly superior low-beam to the DOT standard -- and apparently VW did a p*ss-poor job of...
• Re: Headlight rewiring
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:13:01 EDT
  ...First the low beam/high beam connection to the H4, looks to the same as the DOT-code lights, so I assume it will...
• Re: High beam blue light?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:40:28 -0700
  ...High beam blue light? > At 06:15 PM 3/11/2009, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: >>It's barely a 'bulb' after all, unless we...
• Re: Headlights Out
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:24:42 -0800
  ...That source is bypassed when you pull on the high beam stalk to flash the high beams. that works off 'anytime' voltage. less likely...
• Re: Head lights
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:10:46 -0500
  Sealed beam DOT headlights are not very good. They are disposable items produced with minimum attention to reflector and lens quality. Even the Xtravision...
• Re: Crazy BRIGHT(!!) reverse lights
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:49:10 -0400
  ...to lower their high beams. :o) Won't they be surprised when your tranny pukes its guts all over the highway? That'll show...
• Major light upgrade (long)
  Historical mailing list - Bill N
  Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:14:29 -0700
  ...I then ran red #12 from the #87 terminal on the high beam relay to both high beam positions, and red #12 from the...
• Re: Time to replace headlight
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sun, 2 Dec 2012 10:47:20 -0700
  ...Both the high beam and low beam headlights have separate bulbs, and are not sealed beam lights. bob On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at...
• Re: High beam indicator
  Historical mailing list - Blake Thornton
  Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:30:24 -0500
  ...In the meantime, I'm hoping to pass my saftey test tomorrow by swapping the high beam indicator with another one of the lights...
• Switch
  Historical mailing list - kfilc
  Mon, 2 Feb 2004 23:33:00 -0000
  ...I have a 72 Westy with a brocken high/low beam switch. Need this for certification here in Canada. Enybody has one laying around...
• Re: SA grills available again
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:48:55 -0500
  ...My eyes tend to be extra sensitive to dazzle at night, and I get irritated by folks using their high beams erroneously. I try...
• Re: Vanagon rear lights and the pathetic headlights
  Historical mailing list - Jay Brown
  Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:25:27 -0500
  ...Since all filament based bulbs degrade over time, you should replace your high beam bulbs as well if they are more than a year...