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• Can I use a three prong flasher relay?
  Historical mailing list - Timothy D.F. Maddox
  Sun, 25 Jun 95 18:18:00 EDT
  My 69 has a four prong flasher relay that I just burned out trying to hook up some new gauges. The 68-70 used...
• Re: Re Stopping the flashing coolant light for good
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:23:35 -0400
  ...Re Stopping the flashing coolant light for good Mine (84 I-4 conversion faux-Westie) was flashing when I bought it. Likely a function...
• Re: Flashing Coolant Light Sensor Test
  Historical mailing list - william landsman
  Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:50:19 -0700
  I recenlty had my coolant flushed and since then I have been having the same problem with the flashing coolant light. My problem is...
• Re: No Headlights or Turnsignals but Markers OK Update 4
  Historical mailing list - Cunegonde
  Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:54:05 -0700
  > Installed new hi-lo switch and indeed, restored all functionality except driver lo beam, and driver front flasher when the parking light is on...
• Re: More Silver Wheel Painting
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Stewart
  Sun, 26 Aug 2001 08:03:43 -0400
  ...I had roll of roof flashing from a roof repair, so it basically cost me nothing. Take the flashing and wrap it around the...
• Re: Re flashing over vans
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 25 Aug 1994 12:45:25 -0400 (EDT)
  My 66 double cab and 67 camper had the headlight flasher feature. Ric
• Signal light flashing too fast.
  Historical mailing list - Rick Cooper
  Sat, 18 Nov 2023 10:13:18 -0800
  ...When I put it back I may have hooked up the wiring incorrectly and since then it flashes too fast -- similar to what happens...
• Re: LED lights
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:27:50 -0400
  If you're into do it yourself, you can replace the current-measuring shunt inside the VAG flasher with a smaller wire, or grind...
• Re: coolant LED flashing constantly
  Historical mailing list - Steve Bergin
  Mon, 3 Aug 1998 21:37:36 -0500
  The coolant on my 1985 flashes untill it reaches operating temp then goes off. I replaced the sensor with no help. I could use...
• Coolant light flashes until warm, sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Spencer Allen
  Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:16:10 EDT
  The coolant light on my 85 1.9 flashes at start up and continues until engine and coolant warm up. After warm up there...
• Re: Flashing temp gauge
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:48:46 -0400
  At 05:56 AM 10/16/2014, Frank Condelli wrote: >The number one reason the coolant light flashes "slowly" when that >reservoir is full...
• Re: Waving Vanagon drivers (again)
  Historical mailing list - Sami Dakhlia
  Mon, 11 Sep 1995 23:51:48 -0500 (CDT)
  On Mon, 11 Sep 1995, brad wrote: > I have stopped waving, noone usually notices...usually i flash my high beams > twice at oncoming busses...
• Strobing Reverse Lights -- bright light
  Historical mailing list - Captain Ray Nemo
  Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:32:45 -0800
  ...No flashing whites, blues or greens to the rear. (No flashing reds, blues, or greens to the front.) >> Jason, you could do as I...
• Re: Blinking coolant light
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 4 Oct 1999 23:06:53 -0400
  ...It flashed perfectly normally on multiple tries -- until I breathed into the gauge, at which point it started flashing and continued indefinitely. Case closed...
• Re: turn signal indicator weirdness
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:28:11 -0800
  ...If you want help, pull the flasher relay, test the turn signals and 4 way flashers, record results. Put flasher relay back in, test...
• flashing coolant light
  Historical mailing list - SpaceKommander
  Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:17:42 -0500
  Might be simple. Coolant light will flash when proper antifreeze/water level strays too far from norm . . . .
• Re: Re Stopping the flashing coolant light for good
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:47:45 -0700
  ...Re Stopping the flashing coolant light for good > This flashing light save my Inline 4 this past weekend. It even got me > to a...
• Turn signals
  Historical mailing list - Data Services
  Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:39:55 -0500
  ...Before I pull things apart, will someone assure me that the emergency flasher is the only "flasher" relay in the system, and it's...
• Re: Bright lights stuck on
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Thu, 19 Nov 1998 21:23:40 -0600
  ...Does anyone know, is the flasher switch a >common flasher (like the one on all the GM cars I have owned), or is this...
• Re: Coolant temp warning light won't stop flashing - is my diagnosis correct?
  Historical mailing list - R. Hotchkiss
  Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:52:58 -0400
  ...Any flashing I refer to is not the > self-test flashing when you start the engine - that occurs normally. > > I performed the following troubleshooting...
• Re: A few problems ...
  Historical mailing list - John_K_Hopp
  Wed, 17 May 1995 08:48:22 -0600 (MDT)
  ...Further, when I pull the emergency $$flasher, I burn fuse 6 (or 7?) Does it make sence that the problem is $$just the emergency...
• Re: Wonky temp gauge
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Sat, 2 May 2015 21:32:09 -0500
  Sounds like i now have a spare temp gauge to add to my collection :) Light doesn’t flash at all. Just glows faintly. Temp...
• Flashing Coolant Light, mysteries revealed!!
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:37:17 -0800
  As some on the list may remember, there recently was a thread regarding a reported difference in behavior of the flashing coolant LED from...
• Re: Vanagon LEDs Flasher resolved
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:54:05 -0500
  Hi Jeff, I needed the aftermarket LED flasher to work with the LED flashers. Until I got the correct flasher I updated all the...
• Re: OXS and battery light on intermitant
  Historical mailing list - Bill Collins
  Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:17:45 -0400
  >Any thoughts or suggestions regarding recent intermitant OXS and battery >dash lights flashing in 85 vanagon. They flash simultanieously and the >flashing seems to...
• solid state flasher question
  Historical mailing list - Brian T.
  Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:20:36 -0800
  Has anyone gone to LED running / accesory lights & if so what flasher did they go with? � Thanks, Brian
• Re: Flashing Coolant Light, mysteries revealed!!
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:47:49 -0800
  ...I think the later model is to be > preferred as I want to know the reason the LED is flashing. The flashing > LED has...
• Re: Strange electric problem!!!
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:17:32 -0500
  ...Eric Benny boy wrote: >Gentremen's... > >Van is an 83 Air-Cooled. >Parking light ON, rear left flasher goes ON???????????????????? > >Any other way, everything...
• Re: Directionals work, flashers don't, 1991 Subie Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - madvws
  Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:52:23 +0000
  Sorry, 1991 emergency flasher fuse #4, from left end. Mark On Wednesday, November 27, 2024 at 06:59:28 AM PST, John Lauterbach <john...
• Re: Wonky temp gauge
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 2 May 2015 16:57:29 -0400
  ...Not a gauge problem, also should never happen without the light flashing. If gauge pegs and light does *not* flash that is the gauge...
• 85 flashing coolant indicator
  Historical mailing list - Byron MacIntyre
  Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:50:13 -0700
  The coolant light on my is possessed, it flashes inconsistently, some days it flashes constantly, other it turns off as soon as the engine...
• flashers and blinkers dont
  Historical mailing list - john silverman
  Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:50:13 -0600
  ...Now the emergency flashers come on but will not flash, and the turn signals don't blink. Any ideas...? Thanks John 90 Syncro Westy...
• Intermittently Flashing Coolant & Oil light
  Historical mailing list - Cypriano,Pierre F
  Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:42:03 -0800
  While driving on the freeway for 20 minutes my coolant than oil light started both to intermittently flash. Pulled over to discover all fluids...
• Re: Water level/temp warning flasher
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:08:37 -0400
  ...Needle should head for the sky, if not you have more problems than a flashing light. 2) Unplug the connector from the coolant-level...
• Re: 87GL: O2 Warning Light Flashing Intermittent/No Other Symptoms
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Wed, 20 May 1998 22:09:12 -0700
  At 10:37 AM 5/19/98 -0500, you wrote: >Water temp guage warning light flashing on >Water temp guage reads normal >Engine had...
• Re: Strobing Reverse Lights -- bright light
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:49:27 -0800
  ...No flashing > whites, blues or greens to the rear. (No > flashing reds, blues, or greens to the front.) > > >> > Jason, you could do as I...
• Re: Tail light lense temps with brighter bulbs
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:57:45 -0800
  No, the flashing rate was not changed. I counted the flashes for 30 seconds with the turn signal turned on in each direction. The...
• Rear left turn signal not working
  Historical mailing list - Bill MacLachlan
  Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:37:10 -0800
  ...Left front turn signal flashes very fast- and the green indicator light on the dash flashes very quickly too. This is typical if there...
• Re: flashing red light
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:14:10 -0700
  ...flashing red light daughter got in the vanagon this evening and saw a dim flashing red light on the heat gauge. The van seems...
• Flashing light
  Historical mailing list - Blake Thornton
  Tue, 2 Sep 2003 17:46:06 -0500
  I started up my 84 today to have the coolant light flash for about 5 minutes before finally turning off (the flashing light there...
• OXS and battery light on intermitant
  Historical mailing list - tunajuice
  Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:29:41 -0700
  Hello Listees, Any thoughts or suggestions regarding recent intermitant OXS and battery dash lights flashing in 85 vanagon. They flash simultanieously and the flashing...
• Low coolant light flashing
  Historical mailing list - Rick Cooper
  Sat, 27 Jul 2024 14:40:52 -0700
  On my 1987 vanagon with stock 2.1 engine, the red LED embedded in the Coolant Temp guage started flashing a few kilometres from...
• Bright lights stuck on
  Historical mailing list - James Flanigan
  Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:12:44 EST
  ...Does anyone know, is the flasher switch a common flasher (like the one on all the GM cars I have owned), or is this...
• 86' temp gauge light flashing...
  Historical mailing list - Shepard, Scott
  Wed, 17 Jul 1996 13:51:04 -0700
  ...Once I get going however, the light starts flashing. Once I slow down again, the temp gauge starts moving up as well. I've...
• Re: Water level/temp warning flasher
  Historical mailing list - Dave Baker
  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:37:37 -0500
  ...Water level/temp warning flasher > There is a control module (labelled 43) up under the dash forward of the > fuse panel. Hard to get...
• Turn signal system failure
  Historical mailing list - Maggie Dew
  Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:21:26 -0600
  I'm having the exact same problem - turn either turn signal on and I get a solid green light - no flashing. Then yesterday it...
• Re[2]: Re flashing over vans
  Historical mailing list
  26 Aug 94 13:08
  My '78's got a flasher and my mates '67 Split has too. Lee (and his mate) in the UK
• Re: Directionals work, flashers don't, 1991 Subie Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Thu, 5 Dec 2024 14:41:51 -0500
  Hello Eric, Thank you for asking.  I pulled the fuse and put a new one in.  Flasher now work fine. The contacts (legs) on...
• No Headlights or Turnsignals but Markers OK
  Historical mailing list - Cunegonde
  Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:32:40 -0700
  ...Now she has NO headlights - low or highbeam - and NO turnsignals or emergency flashers. I can hear the flasher relay clicking and tested it...
• Emergency Flasher/ Turn Signal Weirdness
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:30:44 -0500
  ...Turned on my emergency flashers, and when in the back of the van, noted that the flashers were only working on the right hand...
• Flashing Coolant Light Sensor Test
  Historical mailing list - David Shepherdson
  Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:49:53 -0700
  I am getting the flashing coolant light in my 87 syncro. It is not a problem with coolant level or temperature. I have read...
• Coolant Temperature Gauge Light flashes intermittently / continuously
  Historical mailing list - Subject: Coolant Temperature Gauge Light flashes intermittently / continuously
  July 31, 1987
  ...If temperature gauge light still flashes: * Replace low coolant level control unit ------------------------------------------------------------------------
• Coolant Temperature Gauge Light flashes intermittently / continuously
  Historical mailing list - Subject: Coolant Temperature Gauge Light flashes intermittently / continuously
  July 31, 1987
  ...If temperature gauge light still flashes: * Replace low coolant level control unit
• cluster swap from 85 van to 86 van
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Sat, 27 May 2006 17:55:40 -0400
  ...the gauge stays at the bottom but the light keeps on flashing. Coolant is not low, and it doesn't flash with the 86...
• Re: Strange electric problem!!!
  Historical mailing list - Benoit
  Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:29:21 -0500
  ...left flasher goes ON???????????????????? >> >> Any other way, everything is fine with the flasher, but if i put the >> parking >> light ON, left flasher stay...
• Flashlight holder source
  Historical mailing list - Steve Sullivan
  Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:24:12 -0700
  ...Playing a peeping-Steve, I noticed a "D" cell Maglite flashlight mounted to the back of the pass. seat base with two clips that...
• Re: Cooling temp light flashing...
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Thu, 17 Aug 2000 04:26:12 -0700
  ...Cooling temp light flashing... > Pertaining to my '87 Westfalia: > > Whilst driving through downtown San Francisco today, my coolant light > began flashing and stayed flashing...
• Re: Flashlight holder source
  Historical mailing list - Ty Graham
  Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:51:04 -0700
  ...Playing a peeping-Steve, I noticed a "D" cell Maglite flashlight mounted to the back of the pass. seat base with two clips that...
• Indicator lights acting like emergency lights!
  Historical mailing list - Wolfsburg
  Tue, 11 Aug 1998 01:20:30 -0700
  ...Driving into work yesterday I notice that when I had my indicators on, they were both flashing, left and right. When I had a...
• Re: Flashing coolant level lamp
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:53:03 -0400
  ...The expansion tank is where the low level sensor is and is the tank to check for coolant level when the light flashes. Mike...