[T3] Brake Lights

Adriel Rowley adriel_rowley at hotmail.com
Sun Aug 25 21:18:25 PDT 2013


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1971 Sunroof Squareback with F.I. - Located in Coastal San Diego County
1985 Mercedes-Benz 300TD-T - Dog Wgn
Master's Student, A.S.U., living in north central Mesa, AZ


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> From: jadney at vwtype3.org
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:53:57 -0500
> Subject: Re: [T3] Transition Time (was RE: Brake Lights)
>
> On 25 Aug 2013 at 20:17, Adriel Rowley wrote:
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>> Adney, are you saying your switches are fine? If so, where are they made? If
>> not in China, be interested.
>
> The only choices I know of today are Brazilian and Chinese at
> reasonable prices and German at extreme prices. I don't know if the
> German ones are up to the same standard that they were when our cars
> were made, because I've never tried to buy them. They cost 4x what
> the others cost.
>
I be fine with either if they worked, though do prefer to support 
environmental and humanitarian responsibility. One of the switches was 
German.

> The ones I have are Chinese and seem to be of okay quality. They are
> wired correctly.
>
Well, something is better than nothing. What is the cost?

>> May I suggest to be more scientific? ;p First off, there is a problem with
>> one or both switches that were replaced, as EVERYTHING worked fine before
>> putting in the new switches. Further, there was NO modifications done to the
>> wiring. I might have changed after the fact, but that was too long ago...
>
> If you bought Meyle switches during the year when they were
> improperly made, that would explain your problem. If you buy new ones
> today they will work correctly, assuming you have not changed the
> wiring in an attempt to make things work correctly with incorrect
> switches.
>
I got them from Rock Auto (not sure why, but think part of it was frustration with 
ISP). I thought I still had the box in the stuff I have here, but couldn't find it.
The defective one I.I.R.C. was Meyle, think it was the one made in Germany. At this
point, renumber very little and seemed no one wanted to help so was grabbing straws. 
To that point, think sometimes we are not ready and need to wait a year for the 
answer... I mean, now having daily driven older vehicles, learned to ignore noises 
and drive until there is something wrong, which usually doesn't happen. Prior, I was
 paranoid thinking everything is wrong. If it runs and nothing looks out of place 
(like the cooling boot that killed a set of heads) keep on going! 


Thank you so very much!
Adriel 		 	   		  


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