Indicator lights on speedo face 1970 Bay Window

[Elliott99]

Hi, my indicator tell tales on the speedo have stopped working, although the indicators themselves all work. I cleaned the contacts on the relay to no avail, so fitted a new relay, but still did not cure it. Looking for any pointers as to where to be looking, as electrics are not my thing! Thanks.

 

[ozziedog]

I’m rubbish with it too. When ever anything goes wrong on the dash, I immediately start fiddling with the earth and most of the time that sorts it. It runs from one end above the heater box and clips into the back of the dash. After that I’m stumped.

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,bloody leck tricks

 

[Elliott99]

Found a brown wire hanging off the indicator switch, re-soldered it, only to find it was brown/white, and was the headlamp flasher, so still stuck!

 

[naskeet]

Hi, my indicator tell tales on the speedo have stopped working, although the indicators themselves all work. I cleaned the contacts on the relay to no avail, so fitted a new relay, but still did not cure it. Looking for any pointers as to where to be looking, as electrics are not my thing! Thanks.

This might help.

 

[Elliott99]

Thank you! The dash lights are now working! I can't point to the fix, I ended up cleaning every joint behind the dash, and re-soldering the connections to the turn switch, some of which were barely hanging on by a few threads!

 

[sweller]

This might help.

This might help.

Very helpful diagram, and sort of answers a question I have about our newly acquired 1971 van.

When new did both indicator repeater lights in the dash flash? Irrespective of the direction indicating? Which is what my van does now.

It looks like in the revised wiring diagram they are now separated.

Simon

 

[dubselector]

Yes both flash at same time as standard, someone on here did wire them up to flash individualy, have a thread search and it should come up.

 

[sweller]

Yes both flash at same time as standard, someone on here did wire them up to flash individualy, have a thread search and it should come up.

Looks like the wiring diagram I found on this thread does the job. Although, it's something that can wait until I need to get the instrument panel off. No need looking for trouble...

 

[naskeet]

Very helpful diagram, and sort of answers a question I have about our newly acquired 1971 van.

When new did both indicator repeater lights in the dash flash? Irrespective of the direction indicating? Which is what my van does now.

It looks like in the revised wiring diagram they are now separated.

Simon

It was one of my contributions to VW Motoring magazine a few decades ago, which was published as a "Reader's Top Tip", earning me a £10 prize.

I had long thought it illogical to have two direction-indicator tell-tale lights, which did NOT flash separately, according to whether one had activated the left-hand or right-hand direction indicators; giving appropriate feedback about which had been selected, and alerting one to any incorrect selection, that I have all too often witnessed from other drivers.

Hence, I revised the circuitry of my family's 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 so that they would flash independently, rather than together.

 

[Bluesnailman]

I did similar with mine when I re wired it. A simple and easy change although I’d be happier if I’d made an effort for them to be ‘off’ by default