Dash LEDs - Indicators, High Beam

[rfarey]

Hi Everyone
I'm trying to find replacement LEDs for my dash and am having problems. Have searched the forum and can find nothing on this so have come to you for help.

I needed a new blue high beam LED and contacted VW commercial. They didn't have one but sent me a more modern part that was a clear LED with a blue cap. Fitted it and it was very dull, so took it out to refit it the other way around (it had no polarity markings) to see if that helped, and managed to snap off one of the legs on my green indicator LED. The blue one works better, but is still dull and I obviously need a green one now as well.

I got the part numbers Green - 357919061a, Blue - 357919062 but no one seems to have them.

I assume these are standard LEDs that you can buy straight from Farnell or RS, but I don't know the spec.

Anyone know what they are or where I can get them?

Cheers
Rob

[billy739]

hi , the high beam is a non polarity bulb with blue cap as standard on all vans as blue LEDs were not available when these were built!

they are standard LEDs , just dont buy super bright ones!

or i could send you a couple - pm me your address

[Ewart]

Hi,
I have an '86 T25 Autohomes camper. The blue high beam indicator light is not working. I am about to pull out the dash to replace the heater fan motor and would like to resolve the high beam indicator problem at the same time. Can I just fit a replacement bulb? I am a bit confused by the references to an LED option. That's not hard in my case. Please could you give me some suggestions about how I could prepare to fix this problem.
Thanks
Ewart

[billy739]

LED'S are low voltage , the bulb is 12,so if you put an LED in the bulb holder it will pop/blow

you can put the bulb over 12v to test it , clean the cap ect.

most of the time they are actually working , just very dim.

check vw see if its still available new

also if its not working it may be the wiring/connector so check these also

BEWARE an unexperienced person (including a vw mechanic is likely to damage the dash during stripdown)

[Cruz]

I'm sure VW still sell the yellow and blue high beam led's. Just bob along to your nearest commercial dealer

[rfarey]

Hi,
I have an '86 T25 Autohomes camper. The blue high beam indicator light is not working. I am about to pull out the dash to replace the heater fan motor and would like to resolve the high beam indicator problem at the same time. Can I just fit a replacement bulb? I am a bit confused by the references to an LED option. That's not hard in my case. Please could you give me some suggestions about how I could prepare to fix this problem.
Thanks
Ewart

Hi Ewart

If you have the same dash as me, the red battery and oil "bulbs", the green indicator bulb and the blue high beam are all LED as standard from new. They are two legged LEDs that fit into small metal connectors on a flexi circuit board on the back of the dsiplay where they are mounted. Its about a ten minute job to get to them, replace them and put it all back together. (Pop dash top cowl off, disconnect switches from wiring loom, disconnect main flexi circuit from loom on the right by the A pillar, unscrew the two screws holding the backing plate over the centre of the flexi, remove, twist fit dash illumination bulbs, pull middle flexi circuit back from dash). The LEDs are pushed into little connectors on the flexi. You just pull them out then push a new one gently in.)

Part numbers are in the original post. I got some from VW commercial using these numbers, from which they tracked down parts that superseded them.

Good luck

[Spacehopper]

you can put the bulb over 12v to test it , clean the cap ect.

most of the time they are actually working , just very dim.

I have exactly this problem at the mo, i thought the bulb had gone but it is indeed just very dim.
Any idea why this happens? Is it the bulb? (my 12v replacement sourced from Maplin simply doesn't work - bought a few and none of them work in the high beam holder)