I also have a very dim one, and hope to fix that soon.  I frequently forget
to dim the lights and I'm sure I'm annoying other drivers.  Let me know if
you find an easy fix!
Edward

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Richard Smith <richard_smith@gnwc.ca>
wrote:

> 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)
>
> Šr
>
>
> 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
>