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• Low Beams VERY dim!
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Sat, 8 Aug 1998 14:19:25 -0700
  The low beam head lights on my 90 Westy Syncro are so dim it is hard to see at night! High Beams are fine...
• Re: Headlights Out
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:16:19 +0000
  ...I did not enjoy driving with the high-beams on. :-( Clean your ground contacts and you should be fine. High-beams are often on...
• Re: No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
  Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:00:04 -0400
  If you want the high beamer behind you to stop, Just put 2" strip of automotive reflective stripping on the back of the hatch...
• another angle on high-wattage headlight bulbs
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Tue, 12 May 1998 16:40:47 -0700
  ...Since the stock rectangular lamps use two 55W bulbs per side for high beams for a total of 110W per side, I figure I...
• Re: High Power Headlight Kit (SA): melting connector
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 8 Jun 2009 00:07:49 -0400
  ...Running the high beams, the wires and connector > block got very hot (& it was only 70F today) within a few minutes > use. Just as...
• Re: WTB: Round Headlight assembly from '85 and older
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:02:12 -0600
  ...If I adjust that out - then the low beams are to high and bright for on coming drivers. I have the relays and higher...
• electrical problems with headlights
  Historical mailing list - Karl Ploessl
  Sun, 2 Feb 2003 19:11:12 -0500
  ...No headlights or highbeams. Indicator lights, rear lights, flashing lights are working. Switching on the headlight switch turns on the high beam indicator light...
• Re: headlight emergency!
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Tue, 7 Sep 1999 18:22:29 -0400
  ...I have the double high beams when I hold > the high beam switch on, but once released I have neither high beams nor low...
• Re: Where to aim the headlights? SA grill.
  Historical mailing list - pensioner
  Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:01:54 -0700
  ...So since most of my driving at night is done with the low beams, I aim those and let the high beam pattern illuminate...
• Re: square headlight upgrade kit
  Historical mailing list - Helmut Zeidler
  Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:01:50 +0100
  ...DE low beam only unit, and let >the low beam stay on, even if the highbeams >are on. With aux. highs, this could be...
• Re: square headlight upgrade kit
  Historical mailing list - Helmut Zeidler
  Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:42:59 +0100
  ...beam) Total about 300 USD 3) Take Projektzwo with high beams and Hella DE (better on low beam (as 1)) and high beam (as...
• Re: Gah. Inspections
  Historical mailing list - Bill N
  Thu, 8 Aug 2002 23:01:26 -0700
  ...The laws in this state (Virginia) have changed and FOGLIGHTS > MUST GO OUT WHEN HIGH BEAMS ARE ENGAGED! So my Projectzwo foglights will have...
• Blue High Beam light replacement
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:23:24 -0800
  I got several responses about the high beam blue light last week, but how do you replace it. I assume you need to take...
• High beams not working
  Historical mailing list - Pat Patterson
  Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:06:47 -0500
  Not one of my hi beams or the blue indicator are working. My low beams work as do my fog lights. I have the...
• Re: Vanagon High Beams...
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:22:10 -0700
  Lots of people are disappointed in the low beams, but this is a first for me... hearing someone that wants brighter high beams.... Anyway...
• Re: Headlight Upgrade Eilemma
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:57:02 -0500
  ...I just > did to make sure. > Which is why.... > when headlights won't work, due to a faulty ignition switch .. > high beams still work...
• Re: No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:01:03 -0700
  On 9/28/2009 3:41 PM Al Knoll wrote: > For those wishing some serious high beam lumens, I have h3 130W bulbs > available...
• high beams not working, 86 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Imua Camper Co.
  Thu, 28 Dec 2000 11:45:18 -1000
  ...High beams are out, will come on if the switch is held on, but won't stay on after the 'click' of the lever...
• Re: High Beam #
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Sun, 2 Dec 2001 08:04:14 -0800
  ...the ones that only come on > when you switch on the high beams, what part # are they? I know that the > normal headlights are...
• FW: Vanagon High Beams...
  Historical mailing list - Carrington, Tom
  Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:25:38 -0400
  ...Vanagon High Beams... Don & Sue Welch wrote: > > We would like to increase the wattage of our highbeams in our 1991 Vanagon. [SNIP] > Question..... what...
• Re: URL for info on LEDs
  Historical mailing list - Michael A. Radtke
  Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:56:59 -0700
  PerL, Radio Shack sells a blue LED that's way brighter than whatever the Vanagon high beam indicator is. I used one for a...
• Re: Hella E-Codes vs. Vision Plus?
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:06:29 -0800
  ...Fog lights in Kalifornia must be wired to extinguish when the high beams are on. Driving lights must dim with the high beams. Violators...
• WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:54:12 EST
  ...so i switched my high beams on to show him..bad idea...it didnt make things any better.. i did a Uie in the...
• Missing a high-beam... suggestions?
  Historical mailing list - John Runberg
  Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:07:18 -0400
  Noticed the other day that the passenger high-beam would come on, then almost immediately go out. Wait a little while and try it...
• Re: Projektzwo Fog light question
  Historical mailing list - pensioner
  Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:51:35 -0700
  ...In Kalifornia, it's not 'legal' to run foglights and high beams or foglights without low beams. YMMV since apparently the state congresscritters are...
• Re: H4 Headlight aim, thanks and..
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:57:17 -0700
  ...Pull the high beams down where > they can be useful, and the low beams are down on the bumper. I > exaggerate for illustration, but...
• Re: High beam blue light?
  Historical mailing list - Edward Duntz
  Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:50:49 -0500
  ...High beam blue light? > yeah.........duh. > if he would have said 'blue hi beam INDICTOR LED in the dash'........... > that would have made good...
• Re: Vanagon grilles and lights
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Sun, 23 Jan 2000 08:20:30 -0800
  ...THe low beams go out when you switch to high beams. If not, >the temperature in the bulb would be way too high, the...
• Re: No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:07:20 -0700
  ...I > appears that when I pull up on the lever for high beams I'm getting nothing, > all four ('90 Westy) lights out, not...
• Re: headlight relay installation problems...
  Historical mailing list - Wesley Pegden
  Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:54:07 -0500
  ...If I run just the high beam wires through one of the >>>relays, but twist the low-beam (yellow-and-black) wires together, >>>everything...
• Re: headlight emergency!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:33:00 -0700
  ...I have the double high beams when I hold > > the high beam switch on, but once released I have neither high beams nor low...
• Re: 84 Vanagon head lights stuck on hi beam
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Mon, 18 Apr 2016 03:16:09 +0000
  ...Can you push the stalk forward a bit and *then* pull back and turn off the high beams? When you pull the stalk, is...
• Re: So... what is the answer for these poor lights?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:02:22 -0400
  At 02:16 PM 6/5/2003, Ri wrote: >Our low beams SUCK. Our high beams are ok! But, even our high beams don...
• Re: Extra Headlight Question + Driving Lights?
  Historical mailing list - Walker, Phil
  Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:26:03 -0400
  ...so they would be used only with high beam headlights. they are mounted as high as you can get them on the vehicle ... for...
• Re: High beam switch needed.
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL H
  Thu, 26 Sep 2013 22:51:30 -0700
  ...High beam switch needed. Hi all. My headlights sometimes will. Ot come on till I click the high/low beam column arm/switch.� Most...
• Re: Need Help with Headlights
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:17:25 -0500
  ...When High >beams are selected I have 4 really bright lights. Something funny with your wiring. On low beam you're running the two...
• Re: No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:38:32 -0700
  ...One other reason is that the archives become totally useless when you go through such emails, when you are looking for the High Beam...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:15:53 +1300
  ...I >thought the inner lights were high beams. Dunno what lights you're getting there, but they SHOULD be normal H3 high-beams, just...
• Re: Alternator light mystery-High bean switch!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 24 May 2010 22:23:13 -0700
  ...Thus, with the ignition and or > headlight switch off or defective the high beams will work while holding > the > lever up. If the ignition...
• Fuse Box Blues
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Fri, 18 May 2001 22:14:15 -0700
  ...Like my high beam had a 20 and my other high beam had a 10. They're all new fuses, but I just put...
• Headlight Operation
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:07:19 -0500
  Was there ever a model year of Vanagon with dual headlights where both high and low beams were on at the same time?? Like...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:03:23 -0500
  ...auxiliary high beams) to come on only with the outer high beams. They are spot beams and are not intended for low beam use...
• Re: HELP!! No Headlights - 87 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:25:01 -0400
  The high beam indicator turning on is the key. You have lost the ground connection to the lamps. You can connect the grounds directly...
• High beam switch needed.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Greiner
  Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:26:53 -0700
  ...Ot come on till I click the high/low beam column arm/switch.� Most likely the worn contacts in it or something. I have...
• Re: Headlights Out
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:50:57 -0800
  ...On my van I have one low out but the high beam comes on. Can >always buy one bulb and replace it, if the...
• High beams won't shut off?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:31:23 -0500
  I was driving my 1985 Westfalia tonight, when I noticed the high beam indicator light on. Tried to turn it off, but no go...
• Re: Lightbulb for instrument panel
  Historical mailing list - Jfp w/2 WBXs
  Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:47:20 +0000
  Hi Marla, The high beam indicator is #867 919 062. As an aside you should feel fortunate that your high beams are "noticed" by...
• Re: Headlight upgrade issue
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:02:34 -0700
  ...Both high > beams work, and so does the left low beam. The right low beam does > not. I swapped the lamps, same result - no...
• More headlight problems
  Historical mailing list - van man
  Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:55:30 -0700
  ...The hi beams don't work either. When I turn the headlights 'on' the high beam indicator comes on and I can't turn...
• Re: No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
  Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:03:53 -0400
  ...For those of you that talked about > the 'no > lights, some lights if I hold up the high/low beam stalk' I've BTDT...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:06:26 -0800
  ...I'd give you the finger too for driving with the driving lights on during low beam - these driving lights are HIGH BEAM only...
• Re: headlight relay installation problems...
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:58:11 -0800
  The switch is used to "dim" the brights, the high beams as we call them in North America. My English father used to call...
• Re: � � � '86 Vanagon GL?
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:19:11 EDT
  ...The 86 has TWO high beams per side (rectangular headlights). The inner headlight is high beam only. The outer is both high and low...
• Re: High beams not working
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:19:59 -0800
  Sounds like the added hi beam relay or main power wire to/from it. 400 watts is asking a lot of it for sustained...
• High beam blue light?
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:32:32 -0700
  Any one know what bulb I'd need to replace the blue hi beam on bulb on an '84? Rob becida@comcast.net Western...
• '87 Headlight lenses needed...
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Tue, 9 May 2000 00:32:55 -0700
  I also need the right side lo-beam and high-beam lenses, as mine are cracked. Any tips on where to find these would...
• Re: WTB: Round Headlight assembly from '85 and older
  Historical mailing list - Jay Brown
  Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:04:45 -0500
  ...If I adjust that out - then the low beams are to high and bright for on coming drivers. I have the relays and higher...
• Re: High Beam Indicator
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:11:07 EST
  ...blue 'bulb' is actually an LED. >> Once and for all, the high beam indicator is NOT an LED, it IS a miniature INCANDESCENT LAMP...
• High Beam #
  Historical mailing list - Joel Sell
  Sun, 2 Dec 2001 07:13:21 -0800
  ...The inner headlights (I have the square ones), the ones that only come on when you switch on the high beams, what part # are...
• No Low Beams
  Historical mailing list - Forhan, Thomas
  Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:11:25 -0500
  ...High beams ok. All other running lights OK. Of course, my Bentley is at home, so all day here I'm going to wonder...