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• here he goes again...ed's still sick
  Historical mailing list - Gina Godat
  Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:49:44 EST
  ...let it cool, took off and even though the light was flashing, the needle was on the light, telling me it was cooler. it...
• Re: flashing light on temp gauge
  Historical mailing list - Josh Greenberg
  Mon, 7 Apr 2003 16:16:42 -0600
  ...I'd be cruising along and all of sudden the flashing light would engage and the needle would spike. There did seem to be...
• Fw: Water Temperature Light /Now coolant leak...
  Historical mailing list - Michael Hart
  Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:36:15 -0800
  ...when I start engine from cold, light flashes for several seconds & then goes out (it behaves this way most of the time) Occasionally: light...
• Re: Electrical Anomalies
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:36:32 -0700
  ...Sometimes it take 10-15 minutes of >> driving. >> >> Also, every now and then my temp warning light flashes while idling, >> after >> the initial flash...
• Re: temp. gauge warning light
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 2 Jul 2001 21:11:49 -0500
  ...John Rodgers 88 GL Driver Brett Ellingson wrote: > > My 87 westy's coolant temperature gauge warning light has been > flashing. After about 45 freeway...
• rear window defogger switch ('87)
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:01:43 -0700
  ...And why the connection coming from the emergency flasher switch? And what do L39, K10 and E15 mean? Richard
• Re: F/Re: preventing theft
  Historical mailing list - Karl Bloss
  Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:19:47 +0000
  condor2@flash.net (Mark B. Magee) writes: > Chris, > I'm not sure I follow your logic, however if I do this deal <?> and my...
• poltergeist grounding
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 02 Jun 1997 10:04 -0600 (MDT)
  ...Ever notice a car whose tail lights go out when the turnsignal flashes? Bad ground on the tail light housing. -Blaine
• '82 Diesel-What does that Switch Do?
  Historical mailing list - Stefan Weir
  Sat, 11 Dec 1999 22:14:30 EST
  ...On the right side of the dash panel, there is a switch for the rear defroster, below that the hazard flasher switch and then...
• Re: Only in America...??
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 8 May 2002 14:48:19 -0400
  ...floating on the RHS of the instrument cluster >beneath the emergency flasher switch? > >pensioner (staying curious) Back window defrost switch? d -- David Beierl - Providence...
• '91 Syncro Westfalia Full Camper FS
  Historical mailing list - Michael Vickey
  Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:19:48 -0400
  1991 Vanagon Syncro Westfalia Full Camper Flash Silver 156k miles Located in Northwestern Pennsylvania Web page link for the Camper: http://www.velocity.net...
• Re: Cleaning CV
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:21:01 -0400
  ...It won't defat your hands and does not pose the considerable explosive/flash fire hazard of acetone (lacquer thinner). And it won't...
• Flashing temp light
  Historical mailing list - Dar Crammond
  Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:19:35 EDT
  ...I am driving over the coast range yesterday with a pretty full load of gear, when the temp light starts flashing. Strange thing is...
• Re: turn signal indicator weirdness
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:36:18 -0500
  ...Hardly ever fail except by violence. > However, over the weekend I had occasion to use the four-way > flashers and the bulb for the...
• Light Bars
  Historical mailing list - Gene P
  Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:32:35 -0700
  ...Right now there is an Amazon flash sale on some. But my point here is that even if you have no interest in adding...
• Re: Flashers
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 5 Apr 2015 07:34:24 -0400
  At 02:52 AM 4/5/2015, Mudd 'Not Jack' Sparrow wrote: >Thanks. I'll add that to the list. Try exercising it rapidly...
• Re: Where is Front Washer Bottle 87GL?!!!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 27 May 1997 01:28:12 -0400 (EDT)
  In a message dated 97-05-26 17:38:08 EDT, condor2@flash.net (Mark B. Magee) writes: << Volks, I know in my wanderings...
• Re: Flashing Coolant light when cell phone plug into cig lighter
  Historical mailing list - David Bohannan
  Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:52:29 -0400
  Hm, that's funny/not funny... Mine does the same thing, but just ALL the TIME!!! I hadn't asked yet because I hadn...
• GW EFM and available updates
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:40:11 -0400
  Hi list friends, A few days ago a friend and I completed a Flash update on the GW ECU for the engine Management. My...
• Re: Oil pressure light comes on after about 7 minutes.
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 2 Dec 2010 21:56:52 -0500
  ...That's what it says in the owner's manual -- flashing light for low pressure, also buzzer if above 2000 rpm. I haven't...
• Re: the case of the curious blinking LED
  Historical mailing list - Alan Felder
  Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:32:22 -0500
  ...flash a few times to tell you it's working. > Then you turn the key to 'start' , it fires up, and the LED flashes...
• Re: On The Road Again w/Oil Pressure Light Working
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:10:08 -0500
  ...When the ignition switch is turned on, energizing the >circuit, but the engine is not started, the light comes on and flashes. Right >When...
• Re: Flashing battery and O2 Sensor light
  Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
  Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:07:36 -0500
  ...07, 2000 1:26 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Flashing battery and O2 Sensor light I just bought an 85 Westy and...
• Re: Totally OT Siren Sound In Firefox
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Fri, 21 May 2010 23:35:54 -0700
  ...In Firefos > you > > can get rid of it by loading an add on called Flashblock. > > Or keep it running and use the arrow keys...
• '82 Westy comprehensive head/tail light upgrade.
  Historical mailing list - Poppie Jagersand
  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:37:22 -0800
  ...For the front flashers I didn't find the OEM type bulb in yellow. I'm stuck with the Princess Auto "Power First" ones...
• Re: Temp gauge on hot at cold startup
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:27:09 -0800
  ...This will give a false reading of too hot, peg the needle and flash the LED. The sender is in the thermostat housing. It...
• Re: Flashing Low Coolant Light (longish)
  Historical mailing list - Dr. Rainer Woitok
  Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:39:34 +0200
  ...off' expansion tank with water in an attempt to > quash the flashing LED. The expansion tank (as opposed to the refill tank) has always...
• Re: flasher problems
  Historical mailing list - T Collins
  Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:13:35 -0400
  I will attest to what Scott mentions. One of my front signals took in much water and the back was just a rusty mess...
• Re: Water tank
  Historical mailing list - Mark L. Hineline
  Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:22:32 -0700
  All the alcohol flashes off when you boil water for coffee/tea, doesn't it? Mark On Mar 13, 2011, at 1:09 PM...
• Re: Which wire is stereo's power?
  Historical mailing list - KENWILFY
  Sat, 7 Mar 1998 22:16:34 EST
  ...into the full time hot wire in the back on the flasher switch or the hot wire in the back of the rear window...
• Where to aim the headlights? SA grill
  Historical mailing list - Rich Blake
  Sat, 28 Sep 2002 22:55:57 -0700
  ...I can run 80/100W bulbs and nobody ever "flashes" me cause they think I'm on brights. DOT lights cannot be aimed very...
• Re: What voltage do injectors need to fire?
  Historical mailing list - phil cain
  Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:23:16 -0700
  ...Use a 12V test light to see if a signal is getting to the injector, should flash dimly. Phil __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of...
• Re: John Wallace ... News Flash
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Thu, 4 Aug 2005 21:43:09 -0500
  I miss Fred Hesterberg. He used such interesting syntax. I went No-mail for a while and Fred has disappeared and there's this...
• Re: Possessed Temp Gauge
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:31:37 -0700
  Mark Drillock wrote: > ...the new type only flashes the led and does NOT peg the needle. > > The newest type is the best, IMHO. Well...
• Re: Stop the Urban Folk Myth: The IGNITION LIGHT
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Fri, 8 May 1998 10:52:24 -0700
  ...This flashing light at start-up is > NOT an > "IGNITION LIGHT". > > There is no such thing, it doesn't exist. It is purely made...
• 2 cheap syncros fs
  Historical mailing list - William Dummitt
  Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:06:48 -0400
  ...Louis MO, I'll be at Buses by the Arch) 1- 87 flash silver. Was running fine when I bought it, though with low...
• Re: vanagon flashback
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Thu, 2 Nov 2017 19:24:58 -0400
  ...1, 2017, at 7:20 PM, Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM> wrote: >>> >>> http://www.motortrend.com/news/1986-volkswagen-vanagon-syncro-feature-flashback/ >
• Coolant Level Switch
  Historical mailing list - Jack Newton
  Wed, 16 Jul 1997 12:24:33 +1000
  ...Does anyone know what the readings should be and is it possible to check the control unit? The warning light flashes for a few...
• Re: Bulbs
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:40:50 +0000
  ...Bulbs > > I was wondering if there was a difference electrically between the 2 > bulbs. > Not that the flasher module would care about.  The 1157...
• Re: '88 westy water temp light flashing..... what to check first
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:13:52 -0400
  The sender in the expansion tank. I've had this happen due to corrosion at the contacts where the wires connect to the sender...
• Re: Baltimore story. Was: Bears, Food, and Westies (TRUE BEAR STORY)
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:22:48 -0400
  well theyres' nothin wrong with b'more police, unless they;re flashin lights at you, or running speed traps at the end of the...
• Re: flashing clock
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:06:28 EDT
  In a message dated 10/28/99 3:47:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kappy@NFLD.COM writes: << can't seem to stop my...
• Diesel: Temp gauge gone crazy
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:57:38 -0700
  ...My temperature gauge suddenly will start flashing and the needle will go all the way pegged even though the engine is still cold. there...
• Re: $10k Vanagon diesel?
  Historical mailing list - DaveC
  Sun, 8 Sep 2002 12:42:54 -0700
  >In a message dated 9/8/02 8:53:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, jstef@FLASH.NET >writes: > ><< http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws...
• Turn Signals
  Historical mailing list - dgk1
  Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:49:43 -0800
  ...New bulbs, new flashers, new fuses--nothing. I realize I need to track the electrical path but are there some problems common to vanagon...
• Flashing Temperature LED
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Brobst
  Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:00:09 -0500
  Sounds like a problem I've been having on and off for many years with my 84GL. I gave up trying to fix it...
• Monitor gadget for O2 sensor.
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:50:12 -0500
  ...So small it mounts inside the switch blank under the flasher switch. http://tinyurl.com/4ouhj In this humble technician's opinion, a real...
• Blue Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Peter T. Owsianowski
  Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:14:48 -0400
  ...Got a nice hi-beam flash and wave from a Blue Vanagon with a light Blue stripe headed north. Anyone on the list? -- Pete...
• Keyless alarm parking light connection question
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Sat, 2 May 2020 11:37:51 -0700
  ...So I'm I've connected the parking light (flashes for lock and unlock) to the Grey (Gray) /Green wire that goes to the...
• Re: Won't Start in St. Helena, Napa County
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Sat, 29 Nov 2014 22:31:02 -1000
  ...going on. ..whether you > get flashes while cranking or not. > > or in a rare case dim or intermittant flashes ( saw that on a Subaru...
• Re: Wacky Warning light
  Historical mailing list - sstones
  Tue, 24 Jan 1995 14:59:22 -0500 (EST)
  ...When i come to the > first stop sign (about 1,500 yds), the water warning light starts flashing and > the needle shoots off toward...
• Re: how engine oil degrades (was: sysnthetic oils)
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 2 Jan 1997 19:06:31 PST
  ...The flashing LED is associated with the 4.4 sensor. The flashing LED and the buzzer occur with RPM>2000 and no switch closure...
• Re: Flashing temp gauge
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:10:39 -0600
  The temperature gauge is part 255 919 511A and is available from VW Classic parts. So is the fuel gauge. I'd swear I...
• Webasto HL 18B Air Heater
  Historical mailing list - Gmail (tomaglow)
  Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:30:05 -0700
  ...is a timer/start control on the dash that has a flashing clock with an arrow on each side of it and then a...
• Re: The Libby Bong; was RE: flashing LED
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 9 Sep 2009 18:16:13 -0700
  On 9/9/09, Robert Fisher <refisher@mchsi.com> wrote: > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=234192 > > Cya, > Robert > > -- Not sure...
• Re: unofficial ebay poll
  Historical mailing list - Stones
  Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:15:15 -0500
  ...at ellisjames@YAHOO.COM wrote: > > > Now all together- Let's collectively flashback to Martha Rubin shower > > stories... God Bless "Busgirl" where ever you are...
• Re: Seeking "Ice Guard"
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:29:45 -0500
  ...This looks like the stuff! Yes!>> This stuff is just flashing tape. Right? It's not a sound deading material as Q-Pads or...
• blinkered
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Snook
  Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:10:49 -0700
  ...But when the emergency flasher switch is thrown, only the lights on the right begin blinking. The left is dead. Are the left and...
• Re: turn signal indicator weirdness
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:20:26 -0500
  ...Signal lights at all four corners work when they're supposed >to for both the flashers and the signals. What gives? Normal operation -- panel...
• Re: Now what have I done.... Flashing oil light??
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sat, 6 Mar 2010 17:15:51 -0800
  ...But then I notice the flashing oil light on > the dash, and I shut down the engine. > > Turn the key to ON, and the...