At 09:43 PM 9/29/2009, Ian Allan wrote:
>  I wonder about abandoning the foil and running a switched wire
> circuit to the
>instrument lights. Anyone done this?

No reason not to, you can pick it up at the wire where it normally
enters the cluster.  Everything between there and the lights simply
amounts to a wire..

But if you can scrape off the plastic that covers and protects the
foils, you can just solder a wire across the break, no need to get
fancy.  VW made their connections with little crimp terminals that
stab through the whole thing.  I recommend not to solder to one of
these, as it might degrade the connection.

Yours,
David