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Subject:Re: Winking Westy
From:Rick Sherrod (Certifiable VW mech)
Date:Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:46:32 +0000

> Date:    Wed, 26 Nov 1997 07:24:27 -0800
> From:    Tony Smith <wordsmith@WRITEME.COM>
> Subject: Winking Westy
>
> This is weird...
>
> My '87 Westy is winking its headlights
>
> When I switch on my high beams, the right-hand low beam goes off. Switch
> off the brights, and it goes back on. What Teutonic secret am I missing
> here? Can't find the right clue in my Bentley manual.
>
> Tony Smith
> <wordsmith@writeme.com>
> website www3.bc.sympatico.ca/wordsmith
> 1987 Westy "Heidi"

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Tony,

Your headlights each have two seperate electrical circuits in them.  One is a hi beam, one a
low beam.  If one of the fiaments is broken inside the headlight, you will have to replace the
bulb or sealed beam.  Check fuses first.
--
Rick Sherrod
Macon, GA     kdf_cars@mylink.net
http://www.mylink.net/~kdf_cars
83.5 Vanagon (FS)      88 Fox (FS)
81 Diesel 5000 (FS)
83 Volvo Diesel (hers)
82 Ex-Diesel V6 Vanagon project (his)
http://www.mylink.net/~kdf_cars/v6van1.html

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