I have a VERY dim high beam indicator light - is this something anyone
else has encountered? Is it an old age thing, and a new bulb would help? A
wiring issue? (1985 Westfalia GL)

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On 2015-04-28, 11:15 AM, "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

>At 10:12 AM 4/28/2015, Dan N wrote:
>>http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_618_138/dash-light-bulb.html
>>
>>On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Nick Feickert
>><thesuperflydisco@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>> > Hello! As I've torn apart my instrument cluster to clean, I discovered
>> > that the blue (high beam) light which was not working in my cluster
>>isn't
>> > an LED, but actually a little bulb. Where can I find a replacement for
>> > this tiny bulb and then, how to get the two little wires to slide back
>> > into the housing?
>> >
>
>The light bulb with blue cap is VW p/n 357 919 062 and is used on
>Quantums, Passats, Jettas, Golfs, Eurovans, Corrados, Cabrios up into
>mid '90s.  It would be a dealer item.  It was done this way because
>blue LEDs did not exist at the time.  Now, unfortunately** they do,
>so you could substitute an LED but  you would have to change the load
>resistor in series with it from 270 ohms to probably between 470 ohms
>and 1000 ohms for current limiting and to produce the desired light level.
>
>**I say unfortunately only because, since they were so late in
>appearing compared to red, orange, yellow, and green LEDs which all
>appeared within a few years, when they did show up they were exotic
>and instantly fashionable in all sorts of unsuitable uses like panel
>illumination where they cause problems with visual acuity, power
>indicators where nobody would ever have used a blue incandescent
>light even though they were readily available since probably the
>'20s, mood lighting where they are simply ghastly etc.
>
>Yours,
>David