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• Re: Bosch and Hella H4 Lights - Group Purchace (All Mod...
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Sun, 14 Nov 1999 01:21:21 +0100
  KENWILFY@AOL.COM wrote: > To me it is a balance between creating a driving hazard because your > euro-lights blind on-coming traffic, or...
• Scirocco lights vs Vanagon lights
  Historical mailing list - Hans Roos
  Tue, 28 Apr 1998 08:25:12 -0700
  Hi All, Gmbulley wrote about a friend installing Vanagon lights in his Scirocco, I think his friend installed the euro spec Scirocco lights. While...
• Re: "City Lights"
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:13:19 +1200
  > >How about city lights? What is a city light? It's a European-type parking >>lamp, a small 5W bulb sticks through a grommet...
• Re: tail lamp upgrades
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:26:42 -0400
  ...Matthew, I completely agree that the brake lights need to be brighter than the tail lights. This is accomplished, in part, by the reflector...
• Re: Two warning lights come on TOGETHER
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:25:25 -0400
  Whenever the Alt light comes on, the O2 lift also lights as a bulb check. Most likely your alternator is actually failing due to...
• Re: Bosch and Hella H4 Lights - Group Purchace (All Mod...
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 13 Nov 1999 14:47:08 EST
  I have actually been dealing with a Canadian company that sells the euro lights for many different cars and they told me that although...
• Re: Help: Lights Wont Turn Off
  Historical mailing list - Otmar Ebenhoech
  Wed, 10 May 2000 13:37:59 -0700
  ...S7 which controls the left side running lights, and S8 which controls the right ride running lights (I'm assuming this is the one...
• light switch illumination
  Historical mailing list - Harry Yates
  Thu, 9 Feb 1995 21:40:09 +0000
  ...I don't drive the van that much at night, and my panel lights are turned off. I have the daytime running lights (Canadian...
• Re: SA Quad Grill Kit
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:25:22 +1300
  >I'm getting confused with these things.. > >The inner round lights are called driving lights and include for hi beams.. > >The outer lights lens...
• Re: ecode h4 headlights
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Thu, 12 May 2005 09:56:27 -0700
  ...The SA grill comes with the two smaller inner H1 lights, which I've heard variously called "driving lights", "city lights", and "running lights...
• FS: Round H-4 Headlights
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:39:53 -0700
  Hey all, I've got a pair of original VW Hella H-4 lights (round style) in good used condition for sale. These are...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:57:08 EST
  ...I > thought the inner lights were high beams. > > no - theyre driving lights. the high beams are the stock outer 7" round high beam. the...
• Re: headlight advice/f
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:45:11 -0800
  ...But alas, no parking lights, I guess I don't have "true European lights"! Will someone tell me the why these "parking lights" are...
• Re: tail lights
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:57:38 -0500
  ...tail lights > >There is considerable information on Vanagon lighting in the wiki: > >http://www.vanagonwiki.net/wiki/94,_Exterior_Lights
• Re: "Empty" Warning Lights in dash...any uses???
  Historical mailing list - mortimer peaberry
  Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:13:28 -0700
  I was thinking about putting indicator lights for defroster and the brake warning light. These are the lights that i can't see behind...
• Tail lights
  Historical mailing list - C Snyder
  Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:28:28 +0000
  I have a 1987 vanagon rear wheel drive and my tail lights don’t work on either side. All other rear lights work including...
• Re: high wattage light bulbs - A caution
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 25 May 2009 13:03:43 -0700
  I also find it annoying as hell following someone with mega bright tail lights.� I think it is real danger.� Tail lights should be...
• Re: European Tail (FOG) Lights
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:33:53 -0700
  And the lense is special, too...different from all the other lights back there! Per Lindgren wrote: > "Dr. Rainer Woitok" wrote: > > > I don't...
• LED tailights/ Interior lights
  Historical mailing list - Mark Watts
  Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:48:15 EDT
  Anyone manage to fit LED light to their vanagon? Specifically Tailights Turn signal lights Side marker lights Interior lights, I have the canadian incandescent...
• Re: Quick, cheap and easy headlight relay
  Historical mailing list - James S. Cohen
  Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:16:06 -0500
  ...A better fix it converting to the Euro rectangular lights, SA Quad lights, or just the dual round '80-'85 lights, or adding aux...
• Tail lights and brake lights
  Historical mailing list - peter shaw
  Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:10:32 -0800
  Hello Volks, Seems I have some problems with the tail lights and brake lights on my 87. Not having a working model I am...
• Re: Wiring of New Front Aux Lights - Question
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Sun, 4 Oct 2009 07:50:13 -0400
  Robert, Run a separate fused wire direct from your battery, and use the current to the "parking" lights to trip the relay. So, if...
• Two warning lights come on TOGETHER
  Historical mailing list - Ed
  Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:00:41 -0400
  My alternator and Oxygen sensor warning lights are occasionally flashing on and off. I can troubleshoot for the alt and Oxy lights, but why...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:50:09 -0800
  Make all them dweebs happy and paint all your lights black. No need to get so grouchy; it was only a suggestion made strictly...
• Cibie Lights
  Historical mailing list - Mark C
  Thu, 6 Jul 2006 10:45:46 -0700
  ...so now I'm wondering about two cibie fog lights yellow bulbed and two cibie hid lights, driving lights, all installed . . . . that would be...
• Light Show Pt. II
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:46:07 -0500
  ...My findings are as follows; Running lights---Wow ! Turn signals----Wow ! Brake lights----Wow ! Back up lights--- Orgasmic !! I left the parking lights on...
• Headlight Issues Continue - SA installation on '88GL
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:25:33 -0500
  My head lights - which were working fine - are still out - and every time I go to work on them I get interrupted for extended...
• Re: Back-up lights don't work
  Historical mailing list - aatransaxle
  Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:14:23 -0700
  Repl the switch and once you know its working, then repair the backup lights...both common failures. Use a 12v test light to check...
• How to wire new inner lights added to an 84
  Historical mailing list - Tolga Morawski
  Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:28:26 -0400
  ...2 outer lights on >>High: all 4 lights on To set up the lights this way how would I wire the new (on my...
• Re: Vanagon trailer wiring help needed
  Historical mailing list - Mark Rokus
  Sat, 9 Jun 2001 04:26:05 -0700
  Loretta, Sounds like a simple problem with the trailer lights. Could be a bulb shorted, a socket smashed, or a wire pinched. My similar...
• Re: Possible replacement lights? Need feedback
  Historical mailing list - robertmstewart
  Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:38:26 -0400
  > My question was whether those lights would fit as a replacement to the vanagon > lights... What do you think? > -------------- > > > Hmm, don't think there...
• Re: fog light switch--how to rig it 3 way
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Sat, 25 Jul 1998 22:29:41 -0700
  ...The first position (left) is fog lights off, the second position (middle) the front fog lights are on, and the third position, (right) both...
• Driving Lights - If not Project Twzo, what's the answer?
  Historical mailing list - robertmstewart
  Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:18:44 -0500
  ...What�s the answer? I assume Driving lights? So what�s the collectives recommendations? First I am going to get the headlamp wiring upgrade...
• Re: light switch illumination
  Historical mailing list - john keith hopp
  Fri, 10 Feb 1995 08:21:48 -0700 (MST)
  I'd kinda like to start a mini-thread on dash lights, or lack thereof. On my '70 Kombi, the speedo is barely lit...
• Re: Park Lights
  Historical mailing list - Anthony L. Mourkas
  Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:38:07 -0400
  >If you were >to wire your turn signal up "correctly" they are also directional park >lights! Meaning that if you have the key out...
• Re: Extra Headlight Question + Driving Lights?
  Historical mailing list - Ian Anderson
  Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:28:02 +1000
  Driving lights should only operate in the high beam, or brights depending on where you're from. For better low beam lighting you could...
• Re: Additional Interior Lights for Westy
  Historical mailing list - Karl M.
  Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:45:24 -0500
  Yes, I have two of those lights. My supplier (most likely the same one the seller got them from) recently had them in their...
• No headlights.
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:25:14 -0500
  ...Tonight I hit the lights and no headlights. Parking lights work fine on that setting. With the headlights on, I get parking lights plus...
• Re: another angle on high-wattage headlight bulbs
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Tue, 12 May 1998 17:12:27 -0700
  At 07:49 PM 5/12/98 EDT, Kim wrote: >I personally prefer the rectangular lights....but to each their own. > Aesthetics aside, the...
• 85 Vanagon brake lights
  Historical mailing list - Larry Stichweh
  Tue, 7 Dec 1999 20:57:23 -0600
  List members, I seem to have a problem with my brake lights. The bulbs all check out good, to sockets look clean and all...
• LED Tail Lights
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:00:25 -0600
  As of late, I have noticed on late model cars that on the brake lights there are rows of bright red lights - rows of...
• Re: high wattage light bulbs - A caution
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 25 May 2009 14:57:56 -0700
  LED tail lights or brake lights?� I think if the BRAKE lights are bright enough to get your attention NOW then they do their...
• Re: Bosch and Hella H4 Lights - Group Purchace (All Mod...
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sat, 13 Nov 1999 18:03:29 -0800
  Ken, Euro lights DO NOT blind on coming traffic - this is the whole design idea behind them. I drive with 80/100W H4s all...
• Dash/rear lights kaput
  Historical mailing list - Son Of A Vanagon
  Tue, 6 Jan 2004 07:51:19 -0800
  Thanks to those who helped with the dash light dilemna- The problem was found in the number plate lights. One of the bulbs was...
• Re: no dash lights and radio only works when engine is running
  Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
  Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:02:19 -0400
  ...There's where the fuse for the instruments lights fuse is located. The interior lights and the clock share the same fuse, #3. And...
• Switched Parking Lights
  Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
  Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:28:58 -0500
  ...The Vanagon headlights go out, but the parking lights and dash lights remain on. I was studying the wiring diagram and noticed that the...
• Led back up lights inside bumper
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:02:38 -0700
  Still working on my bumper, installed led lights https://shufti.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/vanagon-the-ongoing-rear-bumper-build-back-up-lights...
• Upgrading inner lights on SA grille
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:44:14 -0400
  Has anyone ever upgraded the inner driving lights on a SA grille? You can get some pretty bright 5.75" h4 and h1 lights...
• Re: buses by the depot cool driving lights?
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:19:19 -0400
  ...I don't know how well the tiny lights illumination is, but if they are dedicated driving lights, they probably help quite a lot...
• Re: H4's
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Tue, 29 Apr 97 11:45:19 CDT
  On Tue, 29 Apr 1997 07:52:08 -0500 Bob O'Shaughnessy said: > After the recent discussion about fog lights and city lights I...
• need help w. water level lights
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Sat, 8 Aug 1998 14:49:12 -0700
  ...When I switch on the indicator lights, the green water level indicator lights up weather the water tank is full, empty or in between...
• Re: Wiring of New Front Aux Lights - Question
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Sun, 4 Oct 2009 07:56:21 -0700
  ...Of course it depends on whether these are driving lights or the rectangular auxiliary lights that Hella made some years ago. You may also...
• Re: Inner round SA headlights mounitng?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:16:24 -0500
  The inner lights that came with mine are on mounting plates. The lights are mounted on their adjusters. Do you have the SA grille...
• Re: No headlights.
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:11:07 -0400
  ...Tonight I hit the lights and no headlights. Parking lights work fine on that setting. With the headlights on, I get parking lights plus...
• Re: Back-up lights
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:33:22 -0700
  ...Power directly to the feed to the lights, bypassing everything except > wiring from the wiring box to the lights - lights stay on! (Eliminating > bulbs...
• Led headlamps as auxiliary lights
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 19 Feb 2020 13:10:10 -0800
  Took a pair of headlamps and mounted them as aux lights. Worked out well. https://shufti.blog/2020/02/18/vanagon-led-headlight-as...
• Upgrading 86-up headlights: the definative answer! (longish)
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:08:13 -0700
  ...Legal Lights A good legal alternative to the H4 is the Hella Plus lights and the CIBIE Bobbie lights (which I have on my...
• Re: '88 headlight upgrade options?
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:37:12 -0500
  ...can be. ;) one advantage of this method is that if you wire the added lights somewhat 'illegally' (most states require that fog lights go...
• Re: Tail lamp bulb specifications
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:03:44 EDT
  ...However it is my opinion that the running lights should not be as bright as brake lights normally are. 1156 bulbs are brake light...
• Re: Electrical conductive paste or glue/adhesive
  Historical mailing list - Jim. Felder
  Sun, 24 Mar 2019 20:20:16 -0500
  ...All the other lights and functions are just about perfect. Jim > > Thanks Jim. My understanding is the GW lights are LED and bright white...