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Subject:Re: Old Volks Home Cluster Retrofit Question
From:Jeff Davis
Date:Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:51:10 -0700

I put in the "new" instrument cluster yesterday and everything on the
cluster seems to be working fine.  The speedo fits perfectly.  It is
really nice to have a tach.  Now I can see what those sounds coming
from the back of the van mean. The only thing is now my headlights
don't work.  The switch turns on all the other lights except for the
headlights.  I haven't had a chance to find the problem though.

On 25-Apr-10, at 8:06 AM, Old Volks Home wrote:

> Keep in mind, that certain items were offered differently in the US
> Market
> as opposed to Canadian and European Markets.  KPH models *may* have
> had the
> clusters complete, but I have no documentation to substantiate it.
> They may
> have had these available as an "internally listed" item not shown on
> the
> parts fiche, viewable/orderable from a Parts Bulletin internally
> circulated
> at VAG.  This has been known to happen with certain items for all VAG
> models.
> --
> Jim Thompson
> 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
> 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
> 75 914 1.8 (No Name Yet)
> Full Timing Since March 1999
> oldvolkshome@gmail.com
> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
> ***********************************
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:36 AM, John Lauterbach <jhlauterbach@bellsouth.net
>> wrote:
>
>> About 12 years ago. a couple of the list vendors had complete units
>> for
>> sale.  They had km speedometers and odometers.  I have 88,000+ km
>> on the
>> one in my '84 Vanagon
>>
>> On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 19:24 -0700, Old Volks Home wrote:
>>> The housing, speedo head, Clock (analog and digital), Tach, foil,
>>> LEDS, voltage stabilizer, etc., were are sold as separate pieces.
>>> VW
>>> never offered the cluster as an assembled unit, at least as
>>> shown/listed in the parts fiche of the day, even less info in ETKA.
>>> When replacing at the dealer, they would put it together from the
>>> separate components.  A rather expensive process.
>>> --
>>> Jim Thompson
>>> 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
>>> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
>>> 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
>>> 75 914 1.8 (No Name Yet)
>>> Full Timing Since March 1999
>>> oldvolkshome@gmail.com
>>> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
>>> ***********************************
>>> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:11 PM, John Lauterbach
>>> <jhlauterbach@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>        As I recall, replacements are all one unit. speedometer on
>>> one
>>>        side,
>>>        tachometer on the other.
>>>
>>>        John
>>

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