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Classicvibe
Joined: 05 Nov 2010
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Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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 Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:49 am Post subject: Headlight switch illumination |
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I have this light here, which I believe is stock:
This is my buddy's picture, and he says in order to power a light (#74) to illuminate the switch (the large hole with pins inside it), I have to go pilfer some metal pin parts from a scirocco or something:
and cram them into that hole to support the light (as seen in first picture). How was the illuminated headlight intended to work? Isn't there some stock socket and bulb I can buy and stick in there without doing some Franken-surgery?
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staticsan
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Um, that's a standard socket for the little 1W globes used everywhere else in the dash. It looks odd because it's in the plug. The little piece of metal in the second pic is one of the two contacts for the bulb in the socket. And both of them are clearly present.
If the first pic is *your* actual plug, just put a 1W instrument lightbulb in there and it'll work.
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Classicvibe
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Wade. This is actually a friends. Mine has nothing in that gaping hole. He has recommended that I "build" the contacts...just wondering why mine does not have them, and if there is an easy way to construct them. On a similar note, has anyone found an LED that works well in that socket? Thanks for the response Wade.
**edit** by "build" I mean, go find them in another vehicle and pop them out of that vehicles switch and transfer them to mine.
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mikebola
Joined: 07 Sep 2009
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Location: Parkside, PA
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Classicvibe wrote: | | has anyone found an LED that works well in that socket? |
Are you keen on soldering? if so, yes, pretty much any LED that's of similar size and powered by 12v will work. Just make sure you use a "Diffused" style LED.
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Rich H
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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The fornt of the switch will make it virtualy invisible BTW 
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staticsan
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 8:56 am Post subject: |
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| Classicvibe wrote: | | Thanks Wade. This is actually a friends. Mine has nothing in that gaping hole. |
Ooh... Yes, you need those two contacts. Since you know what shape you need, you could find a piece of copper and make them. 
[quote]On a similar note, has anyone found an LED that works well in that socket? [quote]
Jaycar here in Aus sell little white LEDs in a housing as a plug-in replacement for the type Porsche used here (but a *lot* of cars use this style). They are quite a bit brighter than the normal globes and made all of my gauges much easier to read, particularly the speedo. I haven't tried that socket, though.
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