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• Syncro Westfalia on I-5 Near Westley, CA
  Historical mailing list - Donna Skarloken
  Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:35:00 -0800
  ...29) northbound on I-5 near Westley, California - they stopped on the side of the road twice, flashers on, then passed him after both...
• Re: New bus :-P
  Historical mailing list - Mick Kalber
  Thu, 4 Jan 2001 08:19:31 -1000
  >Looks like Flash Gordon revisited< I thought it was more like the Jetsons. Mick Kalber 89 Syncro Westy "Dadeo" Tropical Visions Video, Inc. 62...
• Vanagon sighting on the Gulf Coast
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:38:05 -0500
  Was it a list member in a white Syncro (maybe) with custom bumpers who flashed lights and honked as I passed in my red...
• Le Tour Westy
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:05:29 -0600
  ...http://www.bicycling.com/tourdefrance/afp/tdf2006/flash/en/index.html That's a pretty cool "tracker" link. Bob
• Re: Flashing Coolant Light
  Historical mailing list - Simon Glen
  Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:02:25 +1000
  ...The light in the middle of my temperature gauge has > started flashing a lot even though the temperature itself does not seem to be...
• Re: Differences between 82 and 83 turn signals?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:55:35 -0500
  ...while doing all of this. > > Yes, the 4 way flasher switch is the emergency flasher switch. > > > Mark > > > > Jim Felder wrote: >> >> See below, then my...
• Re: Water Cooler System Design Flaw Workaround?
  Historical mailing list - Geo
  Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:22:15 -0700
  ...An intermittent break in the wire from the expansion tank sender can cause the flashing and peg the needle. Mine broke under a harness...
• Two Bobs Passing in the Night (slim VW content)
  Historical mailing list - Bob Hufford
  Wed, 12 Jun 1996 22:32:56 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Suddenly I see *many* flashing red lights in the opposite lane up ahead. Thinking it was an accident, I slow down. Then I realize...
• HELP!
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Kimmons
  Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:40:33 -0500
  ...Car will idle fine for about 15 minutes, then oil light will start to flash. Anyone with suggestions? Thanks in advance...
• Re: more cooling system weirdness
  Historical mailing list - (Donna Cassano)
  Sun, 11 Jun 2000 13:32:39 -0400
  ...Could it have been disconnected at another spot? I would like to re-connect it and see if that light still likes to flash...
• Re: Weird Stuff----
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:51:35 -0500
  ...An open circuit between the pins should make the gauge LED flash. Depending on the particular control unit installed it may or may not...
• Re: Proper Headlight Configuration
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:35:34 -0700
  ...Key off, headlight switch on, pull turn signal stalk to flash high beams .. That does not make the wipers go, or turn signals. VW...
• Re: Everything peachy with vanagon.com foil replacement except...
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:57:05 -0700
  The test is when the unexpected flashing is occurring you pull the 42/43 coolant level warning relay out of it's socket. If...
• Re: electrical short?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:22:20 -0500
  ...Also, the same jolt will cause my > coolant light to flash just like it does when first turning the key to > start the van...
• Re: flashing LED
  Historical mailing list - Sunshine
  Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:02:27 -0500
  ...You meant to say coolant temperature gauge, right? ;-) > If that is flashing it's probably the coolant level is low or the > sensor > not...
• Re: Reflective Tape NHTSA Study link
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:32:22 -0700
  ...1st photo here: <http://home.earthlink.net/~tjhannink/photos/Reflective_Tape_On_Rear-Left1.jpg> 2nd photo with flash here: <http://home.earthlink.net...
• Vanagon Flooded
  Historical mailing list - Frank Schultz
  Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:40:14 -0400
  Hello All, Just had a flash flood on our street and Daisy (82 Westy) had water up past her wheels. Any advise on a...
• goin' to Hattaras
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 09 May 1995 16:26:15 EDT
  ...Keep on the lookout for us - two tone green - white (light green) '65 microbus deluxe with MA plates. Flash us down or whatever.... christian
• Re: How to Tow an Old VW?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:10:05 EDT
  In a message dated 4/26/00 9:57:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bigsofa@FLASH.NET writes: << If I use a tow dolly...
• Oil LED ?
  Historical mailing list - insyncro fabrications
  Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:17:13 -0500
  Hello All, I was driving my Syncro yesterday and had the Oil LED flash a couple of times without any buzzer. Oil level OK...
• Re: Joy Hecht's problem's solved?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 23 May 2005 16:31:51 -0500
  ...My coolant temp gauge never > went above 3/4, no flashing light or buzzer. But the expansion and overflow > tanks were dry... > > If you...
• 1981 Fuse S9 Potential Future Loads
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Tue, 1 Aug 2017 17:07:33 -0700
  ...The only loads I see connected to it are turn signal lights, emergency flasher display light, emergency flasher relay. Starting in 1983 WBX (and...
• Break drums and fast flashers
  Historical mailing list - Frank Lee
  Sun, 9 Oct 2011 12:07:17 -0400
  ...2 - *Turn signals flash way too fast. * I checked bulbs and corrected the size. Is this a relay issue? 3 - Needs a *replacement side...
• sensor in coolant reservir
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:16:57 EST
  ...Also, a flashing light in the temp gauge means either low level OR overheating, right? Will a new sensor (which I have already) solve...
• Re: Rabbit Help again
  Historical mailing list - westydriver
  Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:46:18 -0700
  ...Sounds like the Dynamic Oil Pressure > system is fried or not wired correctly. > > > > > relay clicks and the oil light starts flashing. Turn off the...
• Re: Running Hot?
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Mon, 3 Oct 2005 10:55:51 -0700
  ...Good Luck, Steven --- James Comer <bassettbus@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > I have an 84 GL 1.9 and the temp guage continues to > flash..? I...
• Re: Blinker LED goes solid, sometimes....
  Historical mailing list - Jarrett Anthony Kupcinski
  Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:13:19 -0600
  ...For me, both turn signals (and emergency flashers) would go solid after flashing for about half a minute. Replaced the relay and solved that...
• Re: Headlight wiring for 80/100 bulbs
  Historical mailing list - David Clarkson
  Sat, 15 May 2010 12:50:07 -0400
  ...With E-code lenses I would expect that people might flash. With the DOT lenses and 80/100 bulbs I might get 75% of...
• Re: Flashing Coolant light when cell phone plug into cig lighter
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:28:36 -0700
  ...charger into the dash board cig lighter my coolant light starts flashing... sometimes irregularly and sometimes regularly. Freaked me out a few times before...
• Re: SA grills available again
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:48:55 -0500
  ...One flash was usually enough. Continuous was painful. On Dec 21, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Aristotle Sagan wrote: > Anyone who would flash that...
• Re: Hello - Idiot oil light keeps coming on!
  Historical mailing list - Mark L. Hineline
  Sun, 7 Nov 2010 09:46:06 -0800
  ...If it still flashes, it's the wire (or something in the circuit). If it doesn't, it's the sensor. If the latter...
• coolant light flashing
  Historical mailing list - michael schiesser
  Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:26:23 -0400
  My coolant light did the same thing after a leak where I had to bleed the system of air so that is my thought...
• Hysterical thermal gauge.
  Historical mailing list - Rachel Cogent
  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 07:46:30 -0600
  ...When warming up the light flashes and the needle is pegged. Is this what we are talking about?
• BLINKER QUESTION 87 WESTY
  Historical mailing list - Dan Winget
  Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:32:57 -0500
  ...the 4 way flashers work fine. any clues as to what may be wrong?? Thanks Dan
• Re: Black Gooey Stuff
  Historical mailing list - John C...
  Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:25:57 -0700
  ...the ceiling !!! *Gotta love that 70's green !!!* Illuminated by that flashing disco ball !!! *.... If this vans a rockin'.... heh...heh... ;o) * (sorry, couldn...
• Re: Help with coolant light flashing randomly - no leaks
  Historical mailing list - David Clarkson
  Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:11:38 EDT
  I did see one other listmembers post about a possible failing water pump. Mine is fairly new with about 15k on it (5th water...
• Re: Trip report Busses By the Bridge 2
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Sat, 21 Jan 2023 11:04:18 -0700
  ...as a Flasher the White shuts down & Amber LEDS do the Flash,,, Makes for a very distinct > > difference between Running & Flashing ~ Here is a...
• Re: Interior light/work light
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 7 Nov 2001 11:13:50 -0500
  ...One side is a 12" flourescent light, the other side has amber and yellow flashable lights and one end has a flashlight. It comes...
• Re: the mysterious flash of the coolant light
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:50:40 -0400
  ...Maybe 3-4 flashes of the light > total each time, with a total of four occurrences out of 5-6 hours of > driving. > > The...
• Re: Flashing Coolant Light
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:38:13 -0700
  ...The light in the middle of my temperature > >gauge has > >started flashing a lot even though the temperature itself does not seem to be...
• Re: Red Paint Color on Carat's?
  Historical mailing list - Michael J Vickey
  Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:21:07 -0500
  ...84 Wolfsburg Vanagon (parts) 85 DblCab PickUp light gray 87 GL Syncro #1 Wolfram gray "Flash" 87 GL Syncro #2 dove blue met. "The...
• Re: HELP Flashing red temp light!
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:23:12 -0400
  ...HELP Flashing red temp light! So I take it that there should never be air in the pressurized tank? If exhuast gases are getting...
• Re: 84 WB Coolant Light... More(U)
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Thu, 18 Jul 96 07:26:44 CDT
  ...if the other instruments seem to be ok, and still the light flashes, i'm lost. :(
• Re: silver bumper color
  Historical mailing list - Adam
  Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:06:58 -0600
  > i think the 2 colors for the bumpers are Wolfram grey and flash silver. > These are colors for the body I do believe, as...
• Re: WHAT IS THIS!?!?!
  Historical mailing list - Roger Van Till
  Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:25:30 -0500
  ...I wonder if those seat levers are actually Maglight flashlights. Make it easy to find the water tank at night. On Dec 1, 2007...
• Re: parts source?
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Snook
  Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:21:32 -0700
  ...parts source? You replaced a three-connector relay with a two-connector? And your flashers don't work?
• Re: Dash Oil Light
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:43:26 -0800
  ...what is yours doing exactly ? If it's a case of you never see that light flashing - It's pretty unusual for that to...
• Re: Sticking Turn Signals?
  Historical mailing list - J. Harvey
  Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:01:30 -0800
  ...When i turn on the emergency >flashers the problem goes away and the turn signals work great. Is this >a bad contact in the...
• Turn signal system failure
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:21:50 -0700
  ...Changing the emergency flasher relay (21) didn't correct the fault. I have disconnected/isolated both rear light panels, no effect, disconnected the Emergency...
• Re: Mini Fluoresent Lite
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:15:35 -0300
  ...I also bought one of those Garanty > (sp.?) flashlights that has the sliding head, that allows it to be either a > decent flashlight or...
• Re: Car alarms
  Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
  Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:52:31 -0500
  ...It's wired so that as soon as I remove the key it starts flashing. Both my Vanagon and one with a real alarm...
• Re: LED Flashlight Info
  Historical mailing list - John Wakefield
  Thu, 30 May 1996 12:33:10 -0700
  Jeff Carver wrote: > The FlashLED line of aluminum-bodied, water-resistant flashlights > uses light-emitting diodes instead of an incandescant bulb. Options > include red...
• Westy sighting on NCIS Tuesday
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:16:59 -0700
  About 12 minutes in, the opening scene of the Amsterdam 1991 flashback shows a tan or yellow Westy parked at the curb in a...
• Re: Water tank
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:42:11 -0400
  ...Hineline wrote: >All the alcohol flashes off when you boil water for coffee/tea, >doesn't it? Now that all depends on how long...
• Re: big sur lost and found
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Mon, 9 Jan 95 7:57:57 PST
  ...it ;) Well, I think Tobin and Christa have one of our flashlights. They can keep it though. They'll probably need it. :) Steven sjohnson...
• Turn signal
  Historical mailing list - Keith & Lynn C.
  Mon, 1 May 2000 23:26:15 -0700
  ...It flashes as it should for the turn signal, but like I say, it is on just slightly. Ideas? Cheers, Keith
• Rabbit idiot lights
  Historical mailing list - john schaper
  Sun, 11 Jun 2000 10:28:54 PDT
  ...singular arrow centered above the idiot lights that in my Rabbit flashes an intermittent orange. What is it telling me? ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE...
• Re: FLASH: Canada tries to invade California again
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:31:24 EST
  In a message dated 1/19/01 12:28:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, robot_works@hotmail.com writes: << I coulda sworn you said...
• Digital Camera Repair
  Historical mailing list - zolo
  Thu, 6 May 2004 16:48:29 -0700
  I have a Canon S10 that has the problem with the flash not working. I wonder if any of you know how to fix...
• Re: Vanagons being called "Hippie Wagons"..
  Historical mailing list - Slloth
  Mon, 12 May 2008 19:40:49 -0700
  craig cowan wrote: > > So I turned up The Grateful Dead music, flashed them a peace sign, and went > on my way. It wasn't...