FS: Excellent Interior Light $110 shipped, Has a few flaws but you have to look hard Options

[914Sixer]

My car is not stock so I am offering this for sale. Good bulb included. Looks better than pictures show. $110 shipped

Paypal: a914nut@email.com

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That is a light manufactured by Saturnus. Nowadays Hella owns the Saturnus factory; they bought them out a long time ago. Yes, this light will fit a 914. All of these lights were designed to fit the early Beetles about 67-70 and then they were used on the 914 and later Porsche and VW. Except for the terminals and cosmetics, they are all interchangeable as far as fitment is concerned.

As for price, if you sold one for cheap, you lost money. Do a search on the forum. they usually go for $135-$150 for the Hella or Sidler variety which was also used on the early 914. On Ebay they will sell as high as $200 if in very good to excellent condition. And yes, someone who is a real enthusiast, collector or showing their car will pay these prices for the real thing.

[Tom_T]

That is a light manufactured by Saturnus. Nowadays Hella owns the Saturnus factory; they bought them out a long time ago. Yes, this light will fit a 914. All of these lights were designed to fit the early Beetles about 67-70 and then they were used on the 914 and later Porsche and VW. Except for the terminals and cosmetics, they are all interchangeable as far as fitment is concerned.

As for price, if you sold one for cheap, you lost money. Do a search on the forum. they usually go for $135-$150 for the Hella or Sidler variety which was also used on the early 914. On Ebay they will sell as high as $200 if in very good to excellent condition. And yes, someone who is a real enthusiast, collector or showing their car will pay these prices for the real thing.

Hey Tweet -

I was asking about the depth of the light into the backpad for fitment, because I'd run into some VW sources lights which didn't fit the backpad in my 914 properly back in the day - yes the VW dealer said "it should fit fine" & I was on a trip out of town, but in fact it stood about an 1/8" proud of the pad face when the back parts sticking out bottomed-out against the firewall behind it - which led me to replace it with the black button ...111D one from the OC Porsche+Audi dealer when I got home.

Other issues that coan come up on fitment is that the clips which hold it into the backpad may need to be tweaked with some needle nose pliers to fit well (not a big deal), or that the button ends up on the opposite side from the OE lights used in the 914 (see p/n below) when you hook up the leads to the blade connectors (also not a huge deal, but may bug some CW types).

So from personal experience back-in-the-day - some don't fit as well as others with similar part nos. & mfgrs. for other VWs, as do the original p/n: 111-947-111D lights - in either black-button/all-clear-lense or white-button/silver-rim flavors.

I asked because the side pic of Mark's Saturnus above looks deeper than what I recall on the stock .....111D part, but I don't have one at hand, & am not going to dig one out right now to pic & post, since I'm looking for a Hella white-button/silver-rim anyway - but it's just a point/caution now for the others considering buying it.

If it fits okay & Mark Heard/914Sixer can try it in his 914 to verify (5 mins time for the seller/OP to do), then it should be good to go for somebody else, & the price is probably pretty fair for what others that I've seen online lately at $100-200, as you noted above.

Mark H - might I suggest that you install it in your 914 & take pix of fitment & wiring install & of your correct stock one (if you have it), then post them here for your prospective buyers to see it. It won't hurt to install it, since it is used, & not NOS.

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Tom
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