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• Re: Blinking temperature light
  Historical mailing list - Goetz Aust
  Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:45:49 -0600
  ...Also the temp gauge flashes 6 or 10 times before starting and I thought it should only flash 3times. On Monday, July 29, 2013...
• flashing coolant light wzup
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:57:52 -0700
  ...For a few weeks about a year ago the light on my 91 would flash for a minute or so after startup. Then it...
• driving light placement, was Re: SA grills available again
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:23:12 EST
  ...Driving > lights are MAINs, and hence the equivalent of HIGH BEAMS, and the > other drivers are DAMN RIGHT to flash you if you drive...
• Blinking temperature light
  Historical mailing list - Goetz Aust
  Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:18:33 -0600
  ...The temperature gauge never seems to go much above the flashing light. When I stop restart and idle for awhile the front fan starts...
• Headlight Turn Signal wiring weirdness
  Historical mailing list - john
  Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:25:42 -0400
  ...When I put the emergency flashers on, only the right side of the van flashes, nothing on the drivers side. When I have the...
• flashing coolant light purpose
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:35:32 -0400
  ...In fact, it may *still* be flashing, over 65k miles >later...I just taped it over, after about 3 frustrating attempts to make it...
• bemused by wiring
  Historical mailing list - mordo
  Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:42:22 -0500
  ...When I use the right turn signal, the reverse lights flash along with the turn signal. This doesn't happen when I use the...
• Re: Electrical Gremlins
  Historical mailing list - John Graham
  Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:47:55 -0400
  ...With the key > off, the emergency flashers work, but the brake, oil and battery light also > flash. Turn the key with the previous situation...
• Re: 85 flashing coolant indicator
  Historical mailing list - Scarlett Semko
  Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:46:51 -0400
  ...1984 Vanagon with 200,000 plus miles Byron MacIntyre wrote: > The coolant light on my is possessed, it flashes inconsistently, > some days it flashes...
• Water temp light gremlins....
  Historical mailing list - Don Record
  Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:22:21 EST
  ...Twice during the trip the dreaded flashing led on the water temp gauge started flashing. Both times I checked both the tank and the...
• Re: Funky temp gauge - update
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Mon, 8 Jun 2015 10:03:56 -0500
  ...When it was humid, >>it would flash for extended periods. Sometimes >>if I let it flash for five seconds before >>starting it would stop...
• Some progress with turn signal
  Historical mailing list - thewestyman
  Thu, 25 Jun 2015 22:11:52 -0700
  Hi to all, The emergency flasher switch was apparently on constantly and when I switched it off, the turn signals were working. Yes, but...
• Re: Re flashing over vans
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 25 Aug 1994 11:57:32 -0500 (CDT)
  >My 66 double cab and 67 camper had the headlight flasher feature. So it seems that some do and others don't have that...
• oil pressure warning
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Thu, 3 May 2001 22:14:11 -0400
  ...Rev it up a bit, I assume it is going over 2000 rpm, and it starts buzzing and flashing. Continues buzzing and flashing even...
• Re: parts source?
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Snook
  Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:06:22 -0700
  ...I do have turn signals, and one/half of my emergency flashers. On emergency mode, only the right side flashes. All lights function when...
• Re: Re Stopping the flashing coolant light for good
  Historical mailing list - Sam Conant
  Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:58:17 -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 light
  Historical mailing list - Blake Thornton
  Tue, 2 Sep 2003 18:54:10 -0500
  ...Flashing light > > I started up my 84 today to have the coolant light flash for about 5 > minutes before finally turning off (the flashing...
• Re: Strange electric problem!!!
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:53:06 -0600
  ...Parking light, > left turn/flasher, ground. > If someone plugged the ground wire onto the wrong prong then the bulb > voltage will feedback into the...
• Re: flashing coolant light wzup?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:53:03 -0500
  ...For a few weeks about a year ago the light on my 91 would flash for a minute or so after startup. Then it...
• Fwd: RE: Dang driver lowbeam and front driver turnsignal
  Historical mailing list - C B
  Sun, 1 Jan 2017 20:41:43 -0800
  ...The 4 way flasher is not an independent circuit. The flasher will not flash unless it sees enough current being drawn for two bulbs...
• Re: Help! Flashing Temperature LED
  Historical mailing list - Todd Francis
  Tue, 14 Jan 1997 15:05:48 -0800
  ...Starting my 88' Westy > (water-cooled) was no problem however the Temperature LED would not sto= p > flashing. >=20 > This was with the engine...
• Re: 1990 Blinking Coolant Light Mystery
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:43:08 -0700
  ...FWIW - I had an intermittment flashing coolant level light that I finally traced to a pinched wire (one of the pair of leads from...
• road greetings
  Historical mailing list - Norman Leong
  24 Aug 1994 16:27:52 U
  ...you all use the flashing headlights to greet on- coming Type IIs, or is that passe'? I remember when the Rabbit GTI first came...
• Re: painted vans?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Fri, 18 Aug 2000 01:09:00 PDT
  If you live in Southern Cal I know where you can get a decent paint for a decent price... > > > >Flash silver is just the...
• Radio Shack stampede...?
  Historical mailing list - Jutta & Christian Knust
  Sat, 22 Sep 2001 05:08:33 +0200
  Well, a couple of years ago someone posted in a german photo newsgroup that he had found a cheap mini-flashlight for a bargain...
• Re: Blinkers work, no emergency flashers
  Historical mailing list - Mike South
  Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:24:22 -0500
  ...We jumpered power to the flashers and they work, so if this fuse is all we need (I've had the battery in/out...
• Re: 4-way flashers, halfway
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:39:02 -0500
  Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM> writes: > I had occasion to use the flashers yesterday while jockeying three > vehicles among two parking spaces and noticed...
• Re: Rubber elbow connecting filler neck
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 6 Jul 1996 17:02:15, -0500
  ...I once posted that I did this for the lower connecting piece, using silicone wrapped by a hunk of aluminum flashing and hose clamps...
• 86 westie NO LIGHTS!
  Historical mailing list - DAVID TREVOR RICHARDS
  Sun, 4 Aug 96 19:04:10 PDT
  my 86 vanagon camper lights are not working tried everything I can think of Highbeam works with flasher only also the fans and wiper...
• 90 Vanagon temp light flashing, needle ok- HELP
  Historical mailing list - Morrell, Edward
  Thu, 28 Aug 1997 20:30:51 -0600
  ...On the road and my 90 Carat engine temp warning light started to flash rapidly. Gauge needle reads just above half or 3/4...
• Re: dometic problems...
  Historical mailing list - Kelly Bauman
  Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:02:47 -0700
  ...light flashes) Chris, The flashing light and click, click, click won't sound familiar to most listees. This feature only appears in '90 & '91...
• Re: Coolant Low Level Light Useful?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:59:56 -0700
  I tackled my 'flashing idiot light' like a true idiot...taped it over inside the instrument panel. Simple and direct.. I bet it's...
• Re: BLINKER QUESTION 87 WESTY
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 26 Dec 2001 17:01:46 -0500
  The rapid flashing indicates a bulb is out. If both bulbs are flashing check the condition of the sockets and the ground connections. An...
• I'm buzzing - Sequel to Wires and otherwise
  Historical mailing list - Derek Krueger
  Mon, 20 May 2002 13:13:54 -0400
  ...When activated, whether the car is running or not, the Hazard/Emergency flasher switch buzzes loudly, glows red, activates the turn signal indicator LED...
• Re: Flashing Coolant light when cell phone plug into cig lighter
  Historical mailing list - Jere Hawn
  Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:39:35 -0700
  ...If and when I plug my cell phone charger into the dash board cig lighter = my coolant light starts flashing... sometimes irregularly and sometimes...
• Re: Flashlight holder source
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:02:22 -0700
  for a flashlight holder, try a headlamp. I have had one for about 15 years and use it reguaraly. They are readidly obtained at...
• Re: OVERHEATING! - NEED ADVICE! !!! HELP!!!
  Historical mailing list - Ed
  Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:41:21 -0400
  The temperature light will flash if you have the wrong mix of antifreeze to water. Either too much antifreeze or too little will send...
• Re: Direction indicator LED
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 22 Mar 2005 05:51:12 EST
  ...Most likely you have changed the signal flasher unit. The problem is that some aftermarket signal flasher units are not compatible with the VW...
• Turn signal weirdness
  Historical mailing list - Ed Carroll
  Tue, 6 May 2003 21:40:46 -0400
  ...I noticed the classic "fast flasher" problem in our 87, which is my wife's daily driver. I figured it was a bad bulb...
• Re: Bright lights stuck on
  Historical mailing list - Kent Christensen
  Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:43:24 -0700
  ...The actual culprit is probably the turn signal/flasher/high-low switch itself, which has an independent source of always hot (unswitched) current. (This...
• Re: Hazards not working properly 84 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Wed, 3 Oct 2012 19:25:55 -0700
  Well, let's troubleshoot for a bit. * Do the Turn Signals work (of course w/Ignition ON)? If so, the Flasher, which operates either...
• Re: Coolant Temp Indications
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 14 Nov 1995 01:38:30 -0500
  In a message dated 95-11-13 15:38:00 EST, you write: > >The coolant temperature warning light sometimes flashes when the gauge >needle...
• Re: Where to start when signal lights don't work?
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Thu, 27 Oct 2022 14:57:50 +0000
  Try actuating the Emergency Flasher switch....like 20 times...the turn signal lights and that Flasher switch are all inter-related.  Through lack of...
• Re: Flasher Relay Quest (Brian Downing)
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Thu, 2 Feb 1995 16:35:51 -0800 (PST)
  ...fixxing > it up the only thing left is the lights the flasher rely is shot and vw > does not the part the make a...
• Re: blinking coolant light
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:28:09 -0400
  ...Radio Shack sell a nice bright but very slow-flashing LED, four excellent bright diffused red non-flashing ones in each of their LED...
• Re: Temp gauge or heating problem?
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Sat, 30 Nov 2002 14:31:46 -0800
  ...Then the little red light began flashing maybe 20 times rapidly with about a 30-second gap before the next sequence of flashings began...
• Re: flashing LED
  Historical mailing list - Sunshine
  Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:37:16 -0500
  ...AM, mcneely4@cox.net wrote: > Sunshine, that led is supposed to flash initially, until the engine is > running. It's a check to make...
• Re: Low Coolant Warning LED
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Fri, 6 Aug 2021 09:13:33 -0600
  Coolant Level Full @ all conditions Wires to Snsr Disconnected & Jumped > Flashes Wires from Snsr Ground Continuity > Good Wires from Snsr to Relay 43 Continuity...
• Re: Darn it, blinkers still not working. Help?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:47:39 -0800
  ...Make sure that only one filament is lighting when > the left signal is flashing and the parking lights are off. It is a 2...
• 4-way flashers, halfway
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:19:12 -0800
  I had occasion to use the flashers yesterday while jockeying three vehicles among two parking spaces and noticed that the left (driver's) side...
• Re: Darn it, blinkers still not working. Help?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:45:52 -0800
  ...Interestingly, timing the 4 way flashers did not produce much difference in the blink rate over just the 2 bulb turn signal time. The...
• Re: '84 Vanagon 1.9 engine oil pressure switch etc. Now have voltage data on wire from oil pressure switch to instrument panel
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 28 May 2017 11:18:52 -0400
  ...Engine goes above 13 psi at 1500 rpm, light flashes. Yrs, d > >
• Re: flashing LED
  Historical mailing list - Warren Lail
  Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:34:36 -0600
  If your coolant light is flashing either the coolant sensor is bad, the coolant is low, or there is air in the system. Regarding...
• Re: Alternator & EGR lights flashing?
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 3 Feb 1997 17:41:20 PST
  ...Try to catch the voltage when the lights start flashing. That way you "might be able to" eliminate the charging system , or not. You...
• Re: Pzwo lower grille foglights NLA
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:08:15 -0500
  Of course, sometimes flashing hi-beams mean "Watch out, oncoming drivers... there's a speed trap lurking around the next bend"... if only we...
• Re: Temperature Gauge Going Crazy...
  Historical mailing list - Nancy E. Dodge
  Sat, 20 Jul 1996 17:27:17 -0700
  <<I suggest checking the cleanliness/secureness of a few connections in the engine compartment.Two things can cause the light to flash:>> Thank you...
• Re: acci/insur: put cheap camera in g. box.
  Historical mailing list - David-M
  Thu, 7 Jan 1999 07:07:53 -0500
  ...Spring > for one with the flash in case it is at night. Its a good idea, but as a photographer, I have to say...
• Re: paint code for flash silver
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:40:03 EST
  ...writes: > Can someone please provide me with the paint code for Flash Silver Metallic, > circa 1987? > > The painter at the body shop is telling...
• Flashing Temp Light- Solved
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 12 Jan 1997 22:06:26 -0800
  For the past few weeks the temp light has been flashing madly- intermittantly at first, becoming more frequent past week. The engine certainly wasn...
• Re: Re(2): how engine oil degrades (was: synthetics oils)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:21:44 PST
  ...If a switch closure IS detected the LED flashes. Above 2000 rpm the dynamic oil pressure system stops looking at the 4.4psi switch...