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• Re: Recommended Driving Lights or SA Grill Inners?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:56:27 -0700
  ...my highbeam relay so if I do top a hill and unexpectedly encounter an oncoming vehicle, when I dip the high beams, the driving...
• Re: High Beam Lens Needed
  Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
  Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:13:45 -0800
  Thanks to all who responded. Lots of responses! A local Vanagonut has the part I need and, in exchange, I will help him with...
• Re: another angle on high-wattage headlight bulbs
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Tue, 12 May 1998 17:12:27 -0700
  ...The poor performance of the rectangular lights (especially the low beams) is why there are so many threads about using higher wattage bulbs. -Mark...
• Re: Headlights
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:44:31 -0500
  ...The high beams fail more > often than the low beams but they both do it. By pulling the switch stalk > on the steering column...
• Re: Preliminary...Headlight weirdness? (long) Solved!
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sat, 9 Jun 2012 15:53:58 -0700
  ...Assuming left headlight, s/b white to high beam and white/black to low beam. DIN says grounds are brown. Pretty much always. Right...
• Re: headlight bulb question...
  Historical mailing list - pensioner
  Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:59:23 -0800
  Toad smokin'! The Marchal Ampilux were the top of the line for individually aimable high and low beams. The carello dual h1 units were...
• Re: High Roof Freaks Unite!!!
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:10:58 -0800
  ...this one (URL) out...I keep finding interesting details - like the high beams look to be the same size as the lows, & factory ABS...
• Re: high beam indicator sucks
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Tue, 28 Apr 1998 23:36:52 -0400
  ...wondering if other owners have trouble with a dim 'blue LED' > high beam indicator light as I did on my '87. I'd forget...
• Re: HEADLIGHTS on HOLIDAY!
  Historical mailing list - Steve Schwenk
  Thu, 8 Jul 1999 19:07:11 -0700
  ...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: Vanagon grilles and lights
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:49:04 -0500
  ...They do fill in the sides of a poor low-beam pattern, but only in a very narrow vertical band. If bad low-beams...
• Re: Headlights Not Working!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:37:54 -0400
  ...The > curious thing is > that the blue high-beam indicator light on the dash is stuck on. > No amount > of clicking the stalk on...
• Re: 86-91 E-Code Lights are back in stock!
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:58:09 -0800
  ...Low beam and high beam allow you to see better and farther due to the superior light pattern - the low beams are not as...
• Re: Don't yell at me but I tried led H4
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:34:52 -0700
  ...My conclusion was that with low beams the leds were superior, but on high beams the halogens had more penetrating power and less bounce...
• Re: H4 European Headlight report
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 12 May 2009 16:56:41 -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: High beams not working-lighting upgrades!
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:48:25 -0600
  Agreed - but that silly switch controls it all! John On 11/21/2013 11:20 AM, mark drillock wrote: > on Vanagons very little of...
• headlight relays
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:44:37 -0700
  I've edited the post I just made on headlight relays to include note about high beam actuation when lights are off. I welcome...
• '86 on driving lights. 100W
  Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
  Fri, 1 Mar 1996 13:56:30 CST6CDT
  Has anyone replaced the 50W bulb in the square high beam driving lights with a 100W bulb? any signs of amperage overload on the...
• Rectangular headlights... low & high-beam units same shape?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:57:39 -0700
  I have seen images of replacement rectangular headlight kits, and these seem to show separate high and low-beam units which are the same...
• Re: Headlights
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 22 Jun 2021 12:56:58 -0500
  ...The high beams fail more > often than the low beams but they both do it. By pulling the switch stalk > on the steering column...
• Re: grills, grills, grills
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 31 May 94 09:19:11 ADT
  ...It's fun toasting people who won't turn down their high beams at night until they're 50 feet from you! tjs
• I HAVE SA Grills FS!
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:35:45 -0700
  ...If you have a 80-85 vanagon you Re-Use the Headlight Buckets. $260.00 Comes with Grill High Beams and h-4 low...
• Re: H-4 Euro headlights question
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:40:10 -0800
  ...I had. > But, the switch between low beam and high beam...Do others find that the > beam angle changes a whole lot? T > ------------------------------------------------------------ + To...
• headlight on, no turn signals; parking lights on, fast turn signals
  Historical mailing list - Brian Keese
  Thu, 7 Feb 2013 17:19:45 -0500
  ...When I turn the headlights on all the way, the turn signals don't work at all and the high beam indicator on the...
• Grounding Vanagon electronics in general
  Historical mailing list - Dana Showers
  Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:32:19 -0500
  ...It is not the lights that are poor, it is the wiring. > > -----Original Message----- > > Hi Marla, > > The high beam indicator is #867 919 062...
• Rear-facing halogens
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 3 Feb 2001 13:04:14 +1200
  ...Accord came up behind me and sat for many km with high beam going. No amount of flashing the brakelights got the message across...
• Re: round > square headlight conversion
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 4 Jun 2003 15:01:42 -0400
  ...been there) I tend to drive with ALL my lights on (high beams, fog lamps, main headlights). This is to be able to see...
• Re: Headlights Not Working!
  Historical mailing list - Allen Hill
  Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:52:29 -0500
  ...The curious thing is that the blue high-beam indicator light on the dash is stuck on. No amount of clicking the stalk on...
• Re: No Headlights or Turnsignals but Markers OK Update 2
  Historical mailing list - C B
  Tue, 25 Oct 2016 23:01:58 -0700
  ...com> wrote: > Nope, no low beams at all now, passenger or driver. Another new issue is > the highbeam dash idiot light isn't working...
• Hella Driving lights and High Powered headlights
  Historical mailing list - Bob Freeman
  Fri, 6 Dec 2002 01:44:07 -0800
  ...It gives you 160 watts of low beam and 400 watts of high beam and has its own relay to prevent burning up your...
• Re: Headlight low beam failure
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 4 Dec 2016 11:32:45 -0800
  ...Alistair > On Dec 4, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > > I wonder what condition your high/low beam switch...
• Re: headlights
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:35:12 -0400
  ...With ignition off you can get the high-flash with the stalk, but otherwise only parking lights, no low beams. Yrs, David
• High beam feedback
  Historical mailing list - Don & Sue Welch
  Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:05:20 -0700
  Thank you everyone for the excellent feedback.... looks like I stay with stock wattage for now.. Thanks again Don & Sue.... "Nobadays" Join 18 million...
• headlights-on alarm always goes off
  Historical mailing list - Maximiliano Goldschwartz
  Sun, 25 Nov 2001 21:23:04 -0800
  ...Also, the blue indicator of high beams doesn't work. Should be the same thing, maybe? thanks, max
• Re: Missing a high-beam... suggestions?
  Historical mailing list - John Runberg
  Sun, 8 Oct 2006 18:53:39 -0400
  Interesting, but here's the question: I'm getting 12v on the side that's not working - measured with the lamp disconneced. Connect the...
• Re: Headlight Alternatives for 89 Carat
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:54:34 -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: round H4 headlights, was: Re: Me too: Re: [Syncro] Sanity
  Historical mailing list - Joachim Preiss
  Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:25:53 -0400
  ...As you |> already know I did |> the same as you but it was my high beam fuses that went out. I do not |> understand...
• Re: BRIGHTER LIGHTS: install relays
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 5 Jul 2001 20:19:29 -0400
  ...At least you need two circuits, and VW used four -- one each for left and right high and low beams. >And what about our...
• Re: Headlight relay kits
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:30:40 -0800
  ...Recently I have been > challenged with the issue of heat on fuses 5 and 6 when using the high > beams. Fuse 6 even melted...
• Re: Lightbulb for instrument panel
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:41:48 -0500
  ...Lightbulb for instrument panel > > Hi Marla, > > The high beam indicator is #867 919 062. As an aside you should feel > fortunate that your high...
• Re: High Beam Indicator-Ya Gotta Be Kidding Me!!!
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 19 May 2003 02:01:26 -0400
  ...Battery LED now goes out when >started, but still no high beam indicator, and in fact now my left >headlight is out on low...
• Re: High Beam Indicator
  Historical mailing list - Carrington, Tom
  Thu, 16 Nov 2000 23:01:24 -0500
  ...High Beam Indicator > > That blue 'bulb' is actually an LED. On most printed circuits, it is > removeable from it's socket, which is soldered...
• Re: High beam blue LED
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:44:26 -0800
  ...Todd '88 Westy BajaLeo wrote: > Does anyone have advice on replacing the high beam blue LED. Mine is burned out. > >Thanks to all. >_____________________ >Leo...
• Re: No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:48:05 -0700
  On 9/28/2009 5:12 PM BenT Syncro wrote: > Chromeplate your rear hatch. ;-) > This I like. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 84 Westfalia...
• Re: aux headlights
  Historical mailing list - george gibbons
  Thu, 18 Dec 1997 15:18:40 -0500
  ...The fog lamp can only be on with low bean and cancel when you put high beam the opposite applies to the driving lights...
• Re: round > square headlight conversion
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 4 Jun 2003 09:46:32 -0400
  ...Part of the problem, too, is that a lot of cars with these high wattage bulbs have lights with poor beam patterns, or badly...
• Re: No headlights
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 18 Dec 2014 06:57:27 -0800
  ...That lets both the high and low beam voltages feed back to the high beam indicator, lighting it in both cases. I like to...
• Re: '86 on driving lights. 100W
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Wed, 6 Mar 1996 19:53:25 -0500 (EST)
  At 01:59 PM 3/1/96 -0600, you wrote: >Has anyone replaced the 50W bulb in the square high beam driving >lights with...
• Re: Headlights and R. Feinman
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:33:47 CST
  ...well worth the money. :) >high (right UncaJoel?) So if you want properly placed highbeams aimed barely uhhhh .... that's illegal. can't do that...
• Re: 84 Vanagon head lights stuck on hi beam
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Fri, 8 Apr 2016 08:01:09 +0000
  The high beam/low switch is actually on the wiper switch assembly NOT the turn signal switch. http://www.vanagain.com/shop/wiper-switch...
• Headlights Out
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:15:23 -0600
  ...No high beams, no low beams. BUT - if I hold the turn-signal/bright/dimm stalk in the 'back" position - i.e - towards the...
• Re: Hella E-Codes vs. Vision Plus?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 2 Dec 2008 09:36:35 -0500
  ...writes: > >> For high wattage bulbs you want e-codes or you'll blind oncoming >> traffic with the scattered DOT low beams. > > Is that why...
• Re: headlights (all) - poof!
  Historical mailing list - Grungy
  Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:33:48 -0500
  ...Hard to tell for sure (so far) but two of them feel like they are clicking whenever the high-beam lever is pulled back...
• Re: Headlights Still Out
  Historical mailing list - Cunegonde
  Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:22:09 -0700
  ...If your high-beam indicator isn't working then you've got an additional break between S5 on track 42 and the panel connector...
• Re: Time to replace headlight
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sun, 2 Dec 2012 18:51:24 -0600
  ...The bright/high-beam light is a square, and takes a very, very small halogen bulb. But both must be installed through the back...
• help, headlights not working
  Historical mailing list - Loretta Abbott-Kennon
  Thu, 1 Mar 2001 00:43:41 EST
  ...And the high beams still work when the lever is physically held down. I checked the fuses under the dash, all okay and checked...
• =?utf-8?Q?Head=20light?=
  Historical mailing list - =?utf-8?Q?C=20Snyder=20?=
  Mon, 9 Apr 2012 11:21:26 -0400
  I need the high-beam (smaller, innner light) for my 1987 2-wheel drive Van. Also, can someone please give me detailed instructions on...
• Re: no headlights cept pulling back on turn signal stick - 87 westy
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:56:29 -0700
  ...No Lights Unless Pulling up on High Beams BTDT, in my case it was the headlight switch on the dash. Everyone told me the...
• Melted ground wire
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:47:46 -0700
  ...The fuses 20,21(low beam) are OK, the casing of the fuses 9,10(high beam) were melted but the fuses are not...
• Re: headlights
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Wed, 23 May 2007 07:05:41 -0700
  ...don't work, the blue hi beam light on the dash is always lite and the high beam column stalk has no effect on...
• AC etc for AUDI Swap/H4+lens/reflectors
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:11:13 -0800
  ...properly positioned high beam for out of town road illumination with the center spot about 0.5deg below horizontal on high beam. With a...