Dashboard Main Beam Light

Hello All!! Remember seeing a post on here a few weeks ago regarding the blue led failure on the dash which in turn is an MOT failure?  :dontknow:

Well about to start some work on my car and thought I'd better check this out. So does anyone know of the led I need to get? Just wondering if its a special part? Suppose the other question is whether or not to change all the dash illumination lamps as sometimes the right hand side needs a gentle fist on the dash to get it to work!  

Any suggestions on this? Do you keep original or try and get it a little brighter??? Defo in two minds as I'm trying to keep the car as original as possible with a couple of slight improvements!

Cheers,

Andy

It's not a LED, it's a small bulb the size of a LED with a blue cap over it. The yellow, green and red ones are LEDs though. You can put a LED in but you will have to trace the circuit to change a link to a current limiting resister.

To change the bulb requires the clocks to be split, be extra careful when you do as the plastic circuit boards easily rip and are a pain to repair.

See below, you can fix with new small white/blue LED keeping the original blue coloured cap

http://www.vwgolfmk1.org.uk/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=34207&highlight=led

Blimey! That was quick.... I was still looking for the link!!

Thanks for the link… I'll get cracking on the car this Sunday… And finally start my build thread…. Which ain't much of a build… Just a smarten up but I know when you start taking bits off where it leads!!! Wish I still had the pictures of my mk1 scirocco restore!!! (wish I still had the car too!!! Seen a project on eBay at the minute for £1995… Just don't have the room for two projects!!!)

Andy

Dano said

Blimey! That was quick…. I was still looking for the link!!

An old bikers saying Dano  " The older I get the faster I was"   :wink:  :wink:

Good luck with the bulb change Andy I wimped out I'm afraid  :redfaced:

Moved to the electrical technical section  :wink:

if you put an led in get a 12v one, no need for resistor then

rubjonny said

if you put an led in get a 12v one, no need for resistor then

Must have a resistor built into the package then

hmm if so that wont be any good as i guess there isnt room! never mind then

Didn't when I did mine (still works), just stuck a white LED in ?

hmm it may blow eventually then, possible you're getting away with it as its not used so much. unless its still low voltage output on the main beam socket and a suitable bulb to suit. be hard to test the voltage on the main beam socket i guess