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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 3:54 pm    Post subject: Did the rear hatch have a light switch? Reply with quote

In these two pictures there's a square hole with a screw hole right above the driver's side latch elbow when the rear hatch is closed. It looks like the same hole used in the door jambs for the dome light switches. Although if I put a dome switch there it doesn't quite reach the switch to trigger it.

Can someone tell me what this is for?


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 4:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Did the rear hatch have a light switch? Reply with quote

Looks like the right size. I wonder if it was to fit a light switch for an ambulance?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 5:08 pm    Post subject: Re: Did the rear hatch have a light switch? Reply with quote

It's hard to say. When I got the bus at had no wiring. I just finished rewiring the entire thing with a brand new harness from Wolfsburg West and I was grousing around the rear compartment when I noticed it. I was just getting the wires in place for the defroster and I saw it there.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 7:16 pm    Post subject: Re: Did the rear hatch have a light switch? Reply with quote

I have put a switch in there. Just need to make or find some kind of bumper to press it in. Something like the slider door switch that can be added.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 7:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Did the rear hatch have a light switch? Reply with quote

So is this common? My bus is a 71. It makes good sense that the rear hatch would cause the rear dome light to come on but I hadn't seen that in my wiring diagrams.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 7:32 pm    Post subject: Re: Did the rear hatch have a light switch? Reply with quote

All Bay's have that hole, but I have yet to see a switch installed by VW there, but if you feel you need one go ahead.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 8:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Did the rear hatch have a light switch? Reply with quote

Okay thanks for the info guys. So as far as original intent for that hole's existence, a light switch seems logical but VW never installed one, to the best of our knowledge.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:10 pm    Post subject: Re: Did the rear hatch have a light switch? Reply with quote

1973 Ambulance owners manual
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My other thought was a warning light on the dash, for you're rear flap is open you are about to loose the patient.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:02 am    Post subject: Re: Did the rear hatch have a light switch? Reply with quote

Was working on the cabinets and thought I would grab a picture of the hatch switch trigger I installed for my alarm and some lighting. Nothing fancy but it gets the job done.
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