[Vwdiesel] Dash lights

[David Cook]

LOL, I had a friend who had his dash lights go out. 
He took it to a mechanic, who promptply rotated the
switch!

On my 'vert, I replaced the bulbs in the Turbo Diesel
cluster when I got it.  I got the bulbs at O'Reilys. 
I had to take one in to find the correct one. 
Actually, I ended up getting ones that were slightly
larger and had to widen the hole just a bit to get
them to fit.  This resulted in brighter dash lights.

To get them to work, I had to bend the contact tabs
out so they would touch the blue circuit "board". 
They looked like they were touching, but they wouldn't
work until I bent the tabs a bit.

Sorry, I'm playing "catch-up".

David

--- Mary Beth and Chris Geiser <geiser at execpc.com>
wrote:

> Yeah - unfortunately that didn't work!!
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com
> [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of Johann Koenig
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 9:57 PM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Dash lights
> 
> On Monday June 20 at 09:10pm
> Mary Beth and Chris Geiser <geiser at execpc.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Dash lights on my 92 Jetta Eco went down to one a
> few yrs ago and a
> > year ago went out completely.  I assumed bulbs
> burned out.  Got
> > around to replacing the bulbs today and when
> finished, neither dash
> > light still works.  Any thoughts on what to check
> next?  Can the
> > printed circuit be trouble-shot, or is it a
> replaceable item? Any
> > other possibilities?  Everything else works
> fine...
> 
> Did you try rotating the dimmer? I think to the
> right is brighter.
> -- 
> -johann koenig
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David Cook
Red '86 Cabriolet Diesel Powered
Red '90 g60 Corrado 
Brown and White '78 Westy Campmobile "Bear"
and others in various states of disrepair
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