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| Blue6 |
 Jul 30 2015, 09:01 PM
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Found in my box of goodies a driving/ fog light switch which looks new. Anyway it's an ugly kinda faded orange looking color. Is this for early or late cars? Thank you.
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| Tom_T |
Jul 31 2015, 12:13 AM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California
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I differ with some replies above, as I've done a lot of research on this for my early 73 2L's resto, & the "Amber" is 74 - 76 & Green is 70 - 73, with some mixing in the late 73 & early 74 cars when both were in the parts bin. Same switch component - just a different bezel insert AFAIK.
p914.com has excellent info on this sort of what MY stuff folks, but nothing on the fog light switch AFAIK. Cheers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// |
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| Mark Henry |
Aug 1 2015, 06:31 AM
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that's what I do! Group: Members Posts: 20,065 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Port Hope, Ontario Member No.: 26 Region Association: Canada |
QUOTE(Tom_T @ Jul 31 2015, 02:13 AM)  I differ with some replies above, as I've done a lot of research on this for my early 73 2L's resto, & the "Amber" is 74 - 76 & Green is 70 - 73, with some mixing in the late 73 & early 74 cars when both were in the parts bin. Same switch component - just a different bezel insert AFAIK. p914.com has excellent info on this sort of what MY stuff folks, but nothing on the fog light switch AFAIK. Cheers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// Bingo except it wasn't "some mixing" it was a common place event at the factory. VW didn't care, what ever was still in the bin got used in many cases. VW mid year changes were always because they had too many parts left over. This happened right from the 1940's till likely the time supply became automated. |
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| anderssj |
Aug 1 2015, 02:20 PM
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Dog is my copilot... Group: Members Posts: 1,656 Joined: 28-January 03 From: VA Member No.: 207 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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QUOTE(Mark Henry @ Aug 1 2015, 08:31 AM) QUOTE(Tom_T @ Jul 31 2015, 02:13 AM) I differ with some replies above, as I've done a lot of research on this for my early 73 2L's resto, & the "Amber" is 74 - 76 & Green is 70 - 73, with some mixing in the late 73 & early 74 cars when both were in the parts bin. Same switch component - just a different bezel insert AFAIK. p914.com has excellent info on this sort of what MY stuff folks, but nothing on the fog light switch AFAIK. Cheers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// Bingo except it wasn't "some mixing" it was a common place event at the factory. VW didn't care, what ever was still in the bin got used in many cases. VW mid year changes were always because they had too many parts left over. This happened right from the 1940's till likely the time supply became automated. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) There was another aspect of color mixing going on too--the amber switches sometimes had a green translucent diffuser behind the amber lens . . .  Maybe VW did that to decrease the illuminated switch's reflection in the windshield? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) |
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