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rlutterb Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 8:18 am Post subject: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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Anybody ever had a flat dash SB that has the spotlight for the center tunnel illumination? I had one on a 73 with the bigger dash,but the manual says the flat dash has the spot (number 18 in pic). Just curious cause I like having the heat levers illuminated.
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Fiddlestyx Samba Member
Joined: July 08, 2015 Posts: 401 Location: Texas
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:01 am Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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No matter how hard I try, that little light does not illuminate anything but itself. _________________ 1983 Vanagon Westfalia Air-cooled
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rastomas Samba Member
Joined: April 05, 2007 Posts: 258 Location: rosendale, ny
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:27 am Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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Those little bulbs are on a rather tight-fitting pivot so that it can be "aimed" at the levers (or shifter). The brightness is controlled by the dimmer for the instrument lights.
Replacing the bulb with an LED bulb makes it way brighter, and the LED bulbs are much more aim-able. _________________ "It's not 'You are what you eat', it's 'You are what you don't SHIT". Wavy Gravy.
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rlutterb Samba Member
Joined: January 10, 2006 Posts: 1391 Location: Carrollton Ohio
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:00 pm Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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It worked well in my ‘74. Question remains, any seen it as a stock option in a flat dash super? _________________ 1973 Super Beetle
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mukluk Samba Member
Joined: October 18, 2012 Posts: 6985 Location: Clyde, TX
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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My old '72 Super didn't have one. _________________ 1960 Ragtop w/Semaphores "Inga" |
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RichNJohn Samba Member
Joined: April 07, 2017 Posts: 91 Location: Palm Springs, CA
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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My 72 Super/Vert doesn't have one but then again mines missing lots of things. Seems like every time I look at the car I find something that POs have removed, lost etc... |
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glutamodo The Android
Joined: July 13, 2004 Posts: 26302 Location: Douglas, WY
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 1:04 pm Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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I think you're looking at the August 1972 Owner's Manual there... which was for 1973 Model Year. _________________ Andy T.
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bhartwell59 Samba Member
Joined: December 28, 2014 Posts: 788 Location: dallas, tx
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 1:55 pm Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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I have one in my '74 Ghia.
Something like a 1.2 watt bulb. Hardly throws any light out... an LED sounds like the way to go. _________________ '74 Zambezi green Ghia vert, autostick, 101k
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rlutterb Samba Member
Joined: January 10, 2006 Posts: 1391 Location: Carrollton Ohio
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 2:56 pm Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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Would love to have one again on this 72, just not sure how it would have been mounted from the factory. Anybody got pics? _________________ 1973 Super Beetle
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glutamodo The Android
Joined: July 13, 2004 Posts: 26302 Location: Douglas, WY
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:08 pm Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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Well, 1972 didn't come with it, but I don't think it would be too hard to retrofit it, or something similar, to it. There are oodles of various lighting products out there, after all. These days the challenge might be to find something that wasn't too annoyingly bright. Unless you want that...
Speaking of which, personally, if I need to light that general area, I just flip the extra type 2 dome light I stuck under the glovebox on my bugs, as a "map light"
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Tim Donahoe Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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I have one in my ‘74, but the light it throws out is pitiful.
To be honest, the heater controls are easy to find in the dark. They’re just to your right (in the U.S.), on either side of the parking/emergency brake handle. New Fereral regulations required them to be illuminated, and VW came up with that silly little light which apparently squeaked by the new rule.
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gt1953 Samba Member
Joined: May 08, 2002 Posts: 13843 Location: White Mountains Arizona
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 6:17 pm Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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Under my partial tray mounted is a small light that come on with the head light switch. Enough light is emitted on the floor area to see the shifter and heater controls, small packages etc. yet not detract from driving. _________________ Volkswagen: We tune what we drive.
Numbers Matching VW's are getting harder to find. Source out the most Stock vehicle and keep that way. You will be glad you did.
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rlutterb Samba Member
Joined: January 10, 2006 Posts: 1391 Location: Carrollton Ohio
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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What year? Pic?
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Under my partial tray mounted is a small light that come on with the head light switch. Enough light is emitted on the floor area to see the shifter and heater controls, small packages etc. yet not detract from driving. |
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sjbartnik Samba Member
Joined: September 01, 2011 Posts: 5986 Location: Brooklyn
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:46 am Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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rlutterb wrote: |
It worked well in my ‘74. Question remains, any seen it as a stock option in a flat dash super? |
It was never stock on a flat-dash Super.
It did not exist until the '73 model year and the only reason it existed then was a new U.S.A. federal regulation that required that defroster controls must be illuminated when the headlights are turned on.
It was fitted to '73 and later standard Beetles though so perhaps you can retrofit one. _________________ 1965 Volkswagen 1500 Variant S
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AlmostHeavenWV_VW Samba Member
Joined: October 12, 2017 Posts: 1965 Location: WV
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baldessariclan Samba Member
Joined: October 14, 2016 Posts: 1355 Location: Wichita, KS
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 9:22 am Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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glutamodo wrote: |
Speaking of which, personally, if I need to light that general area, I just flip the extra type 2 dome light I stuck under the glovebox on my bugs, as a "map light"
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I don't know much about under dash lighting, but I definitely DO like the "Pest Control System" stored on the door in top pic!
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AlmostHeavenWV_VW Samba Member
Joined: October 12, 2017 Posts: 1965 Location: WV
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 10:52 am Post subject: Re: 1972 super beetle spot light |
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My answer to lighting the footwells/levers:
Battery powered touch 'puck lights' with magnets glued to the back of them.
It's a lovely thing to have metal so I can use magnets for semi-permanent installation of things
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