Anyone care to speculate what it was for?
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So, when I was repairing all of the extra holes in my dash that the PO drilled for various extra switches, There was a square cutout on the dash cover sheet metal...It was obviously a factory cutout, but I couldn't figure out what it was for...I finally found the answer, but figured I would post it here for a fun trivia question....
Anyone care to speculate what it was for?
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Anyone care to speculate what it was for?
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I believe that is space for the ejection button.
Headlight washer
QUOTE(jrblackbox @ Mar 21 2022, 04:33 PM) 
I believe that is space for the ejection button.
I suppose that would be a good use especially if you don't care for the passenger in your car
Diesel glow plug warm-up light?
The "Not so well" hidden kill switch 
QUOTE(ejm @ Mar 21 2022, 06:44 PM)
Headlight washer
Dan
sveedish eye wash?
i dunno.
but i still have all my 74 lhd dash bits from conversion to imperial driving position.
and neither that rectangle hole is there, nor the other circle one.
just the fasten your fricken seat belt hole.
i dunno.
but i still have all my 74 lhd dash bits from conversion to imperial driving position.
and neither that rectangle hole is there, nor the other circle one.
just the fasten your fricken seat belt hole.
@Puebloswatcop
just thought --- hang on a minute, your car is built one day after mine.
so i dug through some more boxes and found the bit i still had off the dash.
it is there in the stick on part.
but its not in the dash panel.
def factory, there in the backing part and not in the vinyl.
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just thought --- hang on a minute, your car is built one day after mine.
so i dug through some more boxes and found the bit i still had off the dash.
it is there in the stick on part.
but its not in the dash panel.
def factory, there in the backing part and not in the vinyl.
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Yes, for headlight washers in Sweden. Guessing they planned for worldwide option because they started using the washer system in 1974 MY. Would not be cost effective to just do a small run for Sweden only.
And the winner is......ejm.
I had no idea, but aftre combing through my restoration books I finally found the answer,
On models from '74-'76 there was an option for headlight washers and that is where the rocker switch was supposed to go. I'm guessing it wasn't a highly sought after option though. Never saw a car yet with them![popcorn[1].gif](http://www.914world.com/bbs2/style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif)
I had no idea, but aftre combing through my restoration books I finally found the answer,
On models from '74-'76 there was an option for headlight washers and that is where the rocker switch was supposed to go. I'm guessing it wasn't a highly sought after option though. Never saw a car yet with them
QUOTE(ejm @ Mar 23 2022, 04:03 AM)
Wow, pretty cool. I had just never seen, nor heard of this system on a 914...lol. Thought it was kind of fun trivia....
QUOTE(Puebloswatcop @ Mar 24 2022, 04:07 PM)
Wow, pretty cool. I had just never seen, nor heard of this system on a 914...lol. Thought it was kind of fun trivia....
Around 2 minutes in this video shows a bumper top for headlight washers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0nvMyPEyOw?t=140
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