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Jim Adney wrote: > Another curious thing we found was in the headlights. > > <snip> > > Once they were removed, we found that they had an unusual > feature that I had never seen before. They appeared to be ordinary > sealed beams, but there was a ~1" circle below the filament > connections where there was no internal silvering and a small > plastic cup was glued there on the outside of the glass. A separate > small incandescent bulb snapped into this cup. This bulb appeared > to have been wired into the parking light circuit so that it weakly lit > up the interior of the sealed beam whenever the parking lights were > lit. This sounds like an effort to make white parking lights (amber are illegal in Europe) in the stock fashion. I have never seen or heard of lights in this manner though. And drilling a hole for the bulb would ruin the light I guess. (This is often done to non-Euro-spec US-brand cars that are imported to Norway, but they usually use a 9004 bulb) > > > Has anyone seen these before? Is this the standard UK headlight? > The sealed beams had to have been made this way. It is a bit strange, as normally only US and Canada use sealed beams, and you drive on right side (both right and right :-) as we do on mainland Europe. Afaik sealed beams were never needed in UK, so why these headlights are on this car seems strange to me. Would be easier to get two used headlights from a Bug or T3 if you ask me. PerL 73 Variant L ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe