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Subject:Re: HELP...Horn/Blinker/Headlight problem
From:Tom L. Salicos
Date:Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:59:29 -0800

I'll guess the w/wipers don't work either.  For me it was the ignition
switch.

Tom Salicos
'87 Westy Syncro

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Wallace" <jwallace@MSAD43.ORG>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 11:33 AM
Subject: HELP...Horn/Blinker/Headlight problem

>I was about to leave the x-mas eve family gathering last night and had NO
> headlights. Improvised by lodging a piece of plastic into the
> highbeam/blinker lever and used a little duct tape to make the 75 mile
> trip home...but I had to pull the fuse for the horn because when I pulled
> the high beam lever back to get the headlights (hi/low beam) to work, the
> horn would blow!  Also found that the power windows wouldn't work and the
> rear seat blower would not work.
>
> The previous few days the horn would beep when I turned the steering wheel
> and the blinker was on.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> John Wallace
> Rumford, Maine
> 88 Wolfsburg Vanagon.