On a recent thread, a forum member posed a question about the switch function and operation of his ('72/6, French market(-sounds like a coffee blend) 914. I could only surmise what the regulations and specs for that market might have required.
However, there seems to be variation of lighting interface on some USA spec cars that I've seen.
My own, unaltered '70/4 works like this. Pull the dash light switch to the first detent and the h/l buckets come up w/o h/l illumination. The front parking lights, side markers and t/ls are illuminated. Pull the switch to the next (and last) detent and the h/ls come on. The fog light switch, next to the h/l switch, illuminates the fog lights whenever it is pulled out, regardless of the position of the h/l switch.
Furthermore, I know of unaltered 914s ('72 and later) that when the h/l switch is pulled out to the first detent, the parking/side marker/tail lights are illuminated but the h/l buckets do not come up. The buckets come up and the headlights come on only in the last, final switch position. I do not know if the fog lights can be used independently of the h/l switch position, as on my '70.
Running changes? Specification changes? Factory variations? The whim of Hans on the assembly line.
Paul
In my 72 headlight switch one click out = no h\l but parking lights and fogs work in this position one more click out on headlight lights work so do fogs
one pull is parking lights. Second is headlights pop up and come on. Only then will the fog lights turn on.
Push one click, the headlights and fog lights turn of, but headlights are still popped up. Only when I turn off all lights does the headlights go back down.
pat, how difficult is it to install? I've done some wiring on the car, and it was a PITA!!!!!
My first pull gets parking lights and the headlites stay down. I put a jumper on the back of the h/l switch to allow the fogs to come on with the headlites down. This was published in Panorama years ago and is probly in Up Fixin'.
Fogs w/o headlites is illegal in some states. But I treat them like running lites. Never had a question about it from John Law.
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