Aircooled VW South Africa

The Fleetline...

Park lights work...brights work...driving lights - not so much.

First notch on the headlight is fine - we have park lights...second notch? We have park lights.

Second notch with brights, as per the norm'? Works.

WtF are my driving lights?

Thanks, N.

Dunno, but blame it on ESCOM in the meanwhile

Check your fuses.

*lol* Pine.

Thanks Fig...I'll fiddle around there tonight.

Cheers, N.

Hope it' s the bus and not your's.

sounds like bad connection at fuses, like Fig said

Luckily.

Thanks lowlight...gonna tinker with the fuses tonight.

Cheers, N.

even if the fuses dont look burned, take them out and clean the connections of the fuses and the fuse holders....

Sweet. Will do. Thanks.

Well we examined the fuses...then we removed the kickpanel and checked the wiring, along with the wiring under the dash for good measure...then we checked the light switch relay...

After much scratching of heads - the top ones - we thought best to check the simplest thing before delving deep into the bowels of the bus...

As someone who drives pretty much all the time with the lights on, and little in the dark the last few weeks...it would be pretty hard to ID faulty lights of late.

BOTH globes were stuffed beyond comprehension, showing lovely psychedelic colours.

Btw, a light buzzer mod' is on my To-Do list as I'm getting seriously tired of organizing jumper leads for the many, many - many - times I forget my lights on.

N.

Very easy conversion - get a 12V buzzer or beeper from an electronic hobby shop, and hook it up to the positive wire of your light switch and the earth wire of the courtesey light and Voila! - if you open the door with the headlights still on, the buzzer buzzs or the the beeper beeps, and you are reminded to switch off the lights!

PS: does a Fleetline have a courtesy light, or a small paraffin lantern?

I was going to hook it up to the ignition.

...and does a buggy have TWO windscreens, loud-ass MoFo airhorns, TWO interior lights, and space for a half a dozen Honies?

Thought not Biaaatch.

N.

Pine wrote:PS: does a Fleetline have a courtesy light, or a small paraffin lantern?

But you are still not denying this?

Nope. It doesn't...but Mr. Pine, unlike buggy drivers, I don't need a light in my bus to find my itoti when the ladies shack up at the drive-in.

Why, do you often lose it? I know exactly where mine is - in the dark, in the light, under water etc....

Nope...it's stowed away in the downlow position, strapped to the left leg...the left leg of my trousers has been enlarged to make space for it.