McMaster Carr has 5 different colors of vehicle wire. They're great to buy
from...
-Curt
On Saturday, October 9, 2021, 11:36:05 PM EDT, Allan Streib via Mercedes
wrote:
No, not really, and a lot of VW wireing has striped two-color insulation.
Hunting online now for small quantity
This might be a good use for those low temperature solder splice and heat
shrink all in one. I used those on the ABS connector on my Jetta and it seems
to he holding so far.
-Curt
On Saturday, October 9, 2021, 09:49:34 PM EDT, Jim Cathey via Mercedes
wrote:
Remove crappy old
No, not really, and a lot of VW wireing has striped two-color insulation.
Hunting online now for small quantity striped wire in various colors.
https://4rcustomswire.com/ seems promising.
Allan
On Sat, Oct 9, 2021, at 11:26 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
> Wire colors? You don't really want to lose
Wire colors? You don't really want to lose those...
-- Jim
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I want to replace the corroded spade connectors on the other end of the wire
also. Seems just as easy to pull a new foot or so of wire through the firewall
and only have one solder joint?
Allan
On Sat, Oct 9, 2021, at 9:48 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
> Remove crappy old splices, and solder in new
Remove crappy old splices, and solder in new wire as required. Only an
inch or three? Shouldn't need to be too elaborate.
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On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 3:35 PM, Allan Streib via
Mercedes wrote: Well a seemingly simple project has
turned into major rewiring job.
I tackled the inop dimmer switch first. Removed the dimmer relay and opened it
Well a seemingly simple project has turned into major rewiring job.
I tackled the inop dimmer switch first. Removed the dimmer relay and opened it
up. It's sort of a clever mechanism, a single momentary 12V input toggles it
from high to low or low to high beam. It's a single solenoid, with a
Hm. Was just looking at the wiring diagram again. My high/low switch isn't
working and was going to deal with that later. I had assumed the low beams were
on (the high-beam indicator on the dash was dark). But checking which wires
were hot, it's the high beams. G. So I was trying to aim the
Sounds about like the instructions I had -- called for a 2.1" drop at 25'
Good thought about trying it with some daylight. I was in the driveway in the
dark.
Allan
On Fri, Oct 8, 2021, at 11:05 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes wrote:
> I'm in the process of getting the headlights on the new
I'm in the process of getting the headlights on the new Golf somewhere near
correct. Set way high when I got it, and I have to pull the bumper cover this
weekend to remove one headlight and get the high beam bulb set correctly (no
room, pulled the bulb and then can't ge it back in place)
Somewhat OT but general enough, project for tonight was aiming headlights on
the Ghia. I had ordered new Koito lights from Dan Stern as the aftermarket
headlights installed by a prior owner were garbage.
I followed the extremely detailed aiming instructions, measuring, setting up
markings on a
Probably the idgits at the rental company adjusting them till the little
bubble-levels are perfect...
I set the cut line so that if I were 2 car lengths in front of my car in
the opposite lane, I wouldn't be blinded.
The high beams have no cut at all, and truly will blind anyone in front if
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:52:16 -0500 Walt Zarnoch zarnoch...@gmail.com
wrote:
I also have a personal preference to aim the drivers side headlight a
half degree or so lower than pass side, so the low-beam cut is well
below the oncoming traffic's line of site. Pass side is also a little
lower
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