Often the intermittent operation is caused by poor contacts on your bulb
holders.
Give the bulb holders a little twist in their respective holders and it
normally removes enough of the oxidation to render them functional.
I believe your shift indicator has a different problem, probably just a
poor ground.
This is a common problem with VWs, sometimes it appears that they just
fix themselves but consider this as temporary and go ahead and clean the
connectors.
If you have any visible corrosion you can use a pencil eraser to clean
the contact points on your instrument cluster printed circuit foil.

Stan Wilder

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:25:58 -0500 "Jones, Dustin" <dujones@STATE.PA.US>
writes:
> About 3 weeks ago, my speedometer light went off for a couple days
> and came
> back on and has not gone off since.Then the other day the light that
> lights
> up the automatic tranny gears went out, came back on for a day, and
> went out
> a again and hasn't come back on since. Is this some kind of
> forewarning of a
> major electrical problem to come or what? Please help. Have a good
> weekend
> volks.
>
> ===========
> Dustin Jones - 91' VW Carat
> PA Dept of Agr.
> Press Office
> (717) 787-5085
> dujones@state.pa.us
> ===========
>
>

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