I tossed mine pretty early, too.  I also cheated the driver's doorlight
switch by pushing it all the way in and canting it to one side a bit so it
couldn't come back out.  I always hated being off in the woods at night and
having the interior lights come on when I opened the door.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]
|On Behalf Of Jake de Villiers
|Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:07 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: Headlight Alarm
|
|That buzzer's the first thing I removed from my van and threw away!  ;)
|
|On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Harry Hoffman
|<hhoffman@ip-solutions.net>wrote:
|
|> Could you tie into the buzzer that goes off when the driver door is
|> open and key is in ignition?
|>
|>
|> Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
|>
|> >No need? Horse hockey.
|> >
|> >Using the bulb type data from my '84's owner's manual, and not
|> >counting the bulbs in the dash:
|> >
|> >4 x type 1034 bulbs (2 front parking, 2 rear tail), assuming the
|> >lower wattage filaments are lit @ 1.34A each = 5.4 amps
|> >2 x type 1816 (rear side markers) @ .33A = 0.66 amps
|> >
|> >Total: 6 amps/hours.
|> >
|> >You leave those on overnight, say 12 hours, and you've
|pulled 72 amp
|> >hours out of the battery.
|> >
|> >I'm keeping my buzzer wired thankyouverymuch.
|> >
|> >--
|> >RJS
|> >
|> >On 07/28/2011 02:28 PM, Old Volks Home wrote:
|> >> The Headlight OFF feature with Ignition OFF was
|introduced in 1971
|> >> model year on Beetles, Ghias, Buses, Type 3s and Type 4s.  This
|> >> feature has been on all VWs ever since, thus no need for a
|> >> Headlight Alarm.
|> >
|>
|
|
|
|--
|Jake
|
|1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX - 'The Grey Van'
|1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Subie - 'Dixie'
|
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