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• Re: H-4 Headlight questions
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:39:16 -0700
  ...Now I > have some sealed beam halogens that are OK, but I wanted a little more low > beam, for sure..and extra high beam...
• Re: Wiring of New Front Aux Lights - Question
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Sun, 4 Oct 2009 07:56:21 -0700
  ...Some states require the fog lights to go off with low beams, and similarly the auxiliary driving lights to go off with the high...
• Rectangular headlights... low & high-beam units same shape?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:57:39 -0700
  I have seen images of replacement rectangular headlight kits, and these seem to show separate high and low-beam units which are the same...
• 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...
• F.S.: Hella XL Auxiliary Halogen Low Beam Headlamp Kit
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:12:52 -0800
  ...PN 74700, made in Germany, complete Hella XL auxiliary halogen low beam headlamp kit includes the headlamps, bulbs, harness, relay, illuminated rocker switch, bubble...
• Re: headlight bulb question...
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:19:53 -0600
  ...They come >on only when the high beams are on. The outer lights (headlights?) are dual >wattage, for high and low beam. The outers...
• Re: Headlight's wont come on (relay bad?)
  Historical mailing list - Danny C.
  Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:59:39 -0800
  ...It was in the low beam high beam switch. I removed the steering wheel and un plugged the turn signal switch and wiper switch...
• Re: fog light wiring ?'s
  Historical mailing list - Steve
  Fri, 6 Nov 1998 21:14:23 -0800
  ...to come on with the low beams, and the pencil > beams to come on with the high beams. It would be nice to be...
• FS Rectangle Vanagon Lights
  Historical mailing list - Steve
  Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:22:37 -0800
  One pair of low beam rectangle vanagon headlights with bulbs (new). $90
• Re: Headlight upgrades
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 23 Jan 2016 12:41:35 +0000
  ...Headlight upgrades > > Fag lights are usually wired so they only work with the low beams. Using > both defeats the purpose of the high beams...
• Re: Hi beams
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:13:36 -0400
  If the low beams work, than the headlight switch is good. Next set is the stalk switch, then the fusses or maybe the bulbs...
• Re: Still no passenger side high beam
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:08:50 -0800
  ...So here is the senario has high powered relays, works fine in low beam both sides work, if I turn on the high beams...
• Re: BRIGHTER LIGHTS: install relays
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:45:59 -0700
  ...At least you need two circuits, and VW used four -- one each for >left and right high and low beams. What are you saying...
• Re: Pzwo lower grille foglights NLA
  Historical mailing list - Don Spence
  Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:36:26 -0700
  Say what? True fog lights are mounted low, have a strong top cutoff and are designed to illuminate the road surface and not the...
• WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:54:12 EST
  ...had the headlights on low beam as usual, and the driving lights on. guy started going real slow, then slams on his brakes in...
• Re: SA grills available again
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:15:57 -0800
  ...I don't > see how or where lights in addition to DOT low beams could not negatively > impact other drivers. > > And now, as if...
• Re: CHEAP Headlamp upgrade?
  Historical mailing list - DaveC
  Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:07:57 -0700
  ...lower and upper beam >> headlights, fog lamps, driving lamps and auxiliary lower beam headlights. > >Does this mean they will finally wise up and accept...
• Ignition Switch Mystery Continues...anybody out there????
  Historical mailing list - kevin obrien
  Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:05:10 -0700
  ...Next day the high beams/low beams were working ok...could switch between the two...and I noticed one of the small (high beam...
• Re: A light mystery
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 30 May 2011 17:26:21 -0500
  ...I noticed on Saturday that the driver side low beam was out (all 4 high beam lights are fine) so I went to buy...
• Re: HIDs on a Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Poppie Jagersand
  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:06:53 -0800
  ...beam and > >> low > >> > beam you need a moving element and they are pretty much > crap. > > > > > Looks like this web outfit sells HID H4 lowbeam...
• Re: Gah. Inspections
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:03:15 EDT
  ...Just power the foglight relay from the low beam wire. Then >they will come on when >the low beams are on. Since you will...
• Re: Arrgh.. Headlights out on 86
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Mulligan
  Sun, 25 May 2008 22:10:35 -0400
  ...IIRC, the factory ground for the headlamps merges both high and low beam ground wires into a single spade terminal at the grounding post...
• Bright, head light problem...
  Historical mailing list - dave
  Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:17:54 -0800
  ...Both low beams work fine. I went to replace my high beam bulb on the passenger side, and sure enough... The filament was broken...
• Re: Headlight Upgrade Eilemma
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:25:17 -0700
  ...switch is held in the up position by the driver and plays no active role > during either high or low beam operation otherwise. > > Mark > >
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - Tony Gould
  Wed, 16 May 2001 09:28:38 -0700
  ...The right low beam doesn't lite up - but does when high beams are selected... Thanks, Tony __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the...
• Re: Fuse Box Blues
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Sat, 19 May 2001 17:50:36 -0700
  ...low beam left > 22. low beam right > 44. giant rear bed cushion vibrator > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn...
• 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: Extra Headlight Question + Driving Lights?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:45:39 -0700
  ...Their beam pattern is low and flat. Long range spot lights have a long narrow beam for and are only useful on very long...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:20:59 -0800
  ...Something that has a low/high beam might be nice. I use a boat horn. When they yell at you or try to confront...
• Headlight Failure
  Historical mailing list - Kevin
  Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:01:27 -0700
  ...So here is the problem, in the low beam setting I now have the two outers on but at about 40% the normal brightness...
• Re: Lights on '82 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - T Collins
  Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:43:49 -0500
  ...When I turn OFF high > beam, low beam goes off ( I think that is the way, but it is hard to tell > which click...
• Re: Driving Lights?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 22 Apr 1997 05:33:18 -0500 (CDT)
  The Canadian version of daytime driving lights for 88-91's uses a normally closed relay to turn off the low beam elements when...
• Missing a high-beam... suggestions?
  Historical mailing list - John Runberg
  Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:07:18 -0400
  ...I imagine that there's a wiring issue to be delt with, but has anyone been here before? Low beams work fine on both...
• H4 Low Beam Replacement Headlights
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:23:38 -0600
  Jim Davis' report on Randy Bergum's H4 low beam headlight replacement assemblies has me very interested. What about those white plastic mounting pieces...
• Re: 758227.jpg
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:28:41 -0500
  Dontcha need separate relays for the high beams and low beams? Larry A. TJ Hannink wrote: >Just curious, why do you need two 30...
• Re: Hella style driving lamp, or else.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 8 May 2007 08:57:00 -0400
  ...Fog lights are very short range, low cut off beams that are designed to cut through haze, stay low to the ground and avoid...
• 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: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:08:34 -0800
  ...beams on with the SA driving lights on there is SIGNIFICANTLY more light than running the SA driving lights on w/ the low beams...
• Re: German Engineering
  Historical mailing list - Scott
  Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:30:53 -1000
  ...a Citroen DS 19 o4 21 has a stalk on the left for parking lights, low beams, high beams. it rotates, and it pushes...
• LED/HID lighting questions
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:28:30 -0700
  ...I think these stock lights are Halogen bulbs...and the lights operate with one low beam on all the time, switch on the high...
• Re: upgrading 86-up headlights
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Wed, 24 Jul 1996 08:15:50 PDT
  On 23 Jul 96 at 23:44, RON SALMON wrote: > >> The low beams on my 87 Westfalia are really terrible > > Really? I had been...
• Re: 86-91 E-Code Lights are back in stock!
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:58:09 -0800
  ...Low beam and high beam allow you to see better and farther due to the superior light pattern - the low beams are not as...
• Fogg Lamp Wiring
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 20 Oct 1994 14:21:45 -0400
  ...position the fogg lamps come on when and only when the low beams are on. In the third (right) position the fogg lamps come...
• Re: Driving Westy to South America!
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 7 Mar 1996 03:57:51 -0500
  ...the column and the hi-beam relay. ---- i had the problem of the highbeams working, but the lows would sometimes quit. It got to...
• right side headlight wont power up ..new relay kit 2 mths ago ...
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Sun, 27 May 2007 11:39:57 -0700
  OK So I got list vendor relay kit a few mths ago worked fine until today the right side headlight high/low beam no...
• I HAVE SA Grills FS!
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:35:45 -0700
  ...If you have a 80-85 vanagon you Re-Use the Headlight Buckets. $260.00 Comes with Grill High Beams and h-4 low...
• Re: intermittent headlight failure
  Historical mailing list - Alan Pickersgill
  Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:31:19 -0500
  ...I changed both stalks the turn indicator/high-low beam and the wiper/washer which it is integrated with. Two days later the same...
• Re: Hella Driving Lights: Was:Bosch fog lights. No, no, no.
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
  Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:19:03 -0700
  ...They come with a relay so if wired correctly, they only work with the low beams, which is what I wanted. I also installed...
• Re: FRIDAY OT - Headlight aimage
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:58:21 -0800
  ...Slightly too wide an angle between the high and low beam trajectory? When I aim the lights to have the high beam light 'perfect...
• Left Headlight dimmer than right
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:11:24 -0400
  My 84 Westy, original wiring, with H4 bulbs (normal 55w range), has developed a "dim" drivers side light on low beam. Not that noticeable...
• Re: 87 Westfalia headlight issue
  Historical mailing list - thewestyman
  Thu, 1 Dec 2016 21:04:52 -0800
  ...The 'fog' lights come on as expected, but neither high beams nor low beams turn on now. I've replaced the rocker switch at...
• 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: headlight alignment parts, headlight replacement
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:38:35 -0700
  ...Low beams don't dazzle and high beams are, well, a brilliant solution. Regardless of the chosen reflector assemblies it makes sense to buy...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:26:49 +1300
  ...high beams? Just the normal complement for a 4-light car. All 4 lights will work on high; only the outers on low. > > those...
• Re: H-4 Euro headlights question
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:00:01 +0100
  ...The beam must aim 15cm lower > than the lens. > Well, for 10 feet this should work, too (if i recall correctly...) > ;-) > > Regards > Raimund > > > > Am...
• My SA gril - I'll never go back!
  Historical mailing list - andrewbell
  Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:49:54 -0600
  ...http://www.bellfamilytree.org/vw/Pict2.jpg Then - amber lights on only with the "lower than low-beam" lights and driving lights on. The...
• Re: High and Low High Beams
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:30:30 -0700
  ...Both my high and low beams shine from my high beam lamps as if the high beam lamps were combination high/lo beam lamps...
• Re: Euro headlight.
  Historical mailing list - Turner,Ronald L.
  29 Jan 97 02:48:41 EST
  >>Additional lights are available for an extended lower grille. Two different >>sets are available: Dou retangular foglights or beams, quad retangular >>for foglights and...
• headlight relay problem?
  Historical mailing list - AD Felder
  Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:52:52 -0800
  ...one handle low and the other high beams?� the website instructions are written only, no diagram, and to me, cryptic. � hi-beam warning light...
• Re: Headlight Issues Continue - SA installation on '88GL
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:38:46 -0700
  Yes of course you can power low beams by some alternative method. what year van ? It could be as simple as using a small...