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texasbrown54 Sun May 04, 2008 5:03 pm

Does anybody know if they all came with that little hole towards the bottom of the housings. I have a set of tailights and only 1 of them has it and the 1 that has it is'nt stamped VW at the bottom and the 1 that is stamped VW dont have the drain hole :?

joshbuchan Sun May 04, 2008 8:08 pm

mine have the holes but no stamp

OvalDash52 Sun May 04, 2008 8:44 pm

Mines are NOS and they have the hole and the VW logo stamp.

53 0val Sun May 04, 2008 10:29 pm

The drain holes are '54. '52 and '53 "hearts" did not have holes.

horatiocaine Mon May 05, 2008 10:24 pm

I agree with Bob. I added drain holes to a set I had without them. Eventually if it has no drain hole it will have a rust hole

texasbrown54 Tue May 06, 2008 7:55 pm

kool thanks

janerick3 Tue May 06, 2008 10:12 pm

The drain holes were added on 18 October 1954, so all the US-market '54s with heart lights and only the first batch of egg lights came without them.

53 0val Tue May 06, 2008 10:25 pm

janerick3 wrote: The drain holes were added on 18 October 1954, so all the US-market '54s with heart lights and only the first batch of egg lights came without them.

You could say that another way. :wink:

All heart tail lights before October of '54 came WITHOUT drain holes. (Hearts with the holes were produced for non-US spec cars up through August of '55)



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