VDO Oil gauge bulb/holder

[macplaxton]

Looking good!

Sorry about the lack of bulb updates, but the main camera has got buried in the move and the moby, well....

[Attack2001]

No problem, i ordered some off the bay. 1.2w 12v capless bulbs

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/280828278976? ... 1439.l2649

got 10 of them for £2, they arrived today, and they fit Woop woop, and if there the same as the ones behnd the heater and light dials then i should be good to get those up and running too

Thomas........................

[macplaxton]

Fairly certain they are the same.

[Attack2001]

Sweet, thats what i like to hear =D Well another thing i thought you all might like to know, fitting the third gauge required another and bracket and nuts. Well the bracket i made myself, its not going to be on show so doesnt matter too much, the nuts i got are M4 Wing nuts, normal thread, not fine. Looks like this



I got the wing nuts here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230631942489? ... 1439.l2649

Thomas....................

[MCHUDD]

Hi Thomas.
Looks like you've done a good job there. Pity i didn't know you needed nuts as
i could have sent you a few spares that i don't need with the bulb holder.
Cheers Mark.

[Attack2001]

Hi Thomas.
Looks like you've done a good job there. Pity i didn't know you needed nuts as
i could have sent you a few spares that i don't need with the bulb holder.
Cheers Mark.

Aha nope its no problem Thanks for sending me the holder, im feeling the fellow 300 owner love on this forum Thomas...............

[jtbo]

Actually I think that you can get today leds that have everything needed in single package, so one don't need to worry about bulb changes ever again.

Light colour with them is of course something to worry about, one should replace them all at same time to get same colour everywhere.

That is what I'm going to do with 360 at least.

[Attack2001]

Actually I think that you can get today leds that have everything needed in single package, so one don't need to worry about bulb changes ever again.

Light colour with them is of course something to worry about, one should replace them all at same time to get same colour everywhere.

That is what I'm going to do with 360 at least.

Yup, in with all my searching for the bulbs and holders etc of old VDO gauges, i found a lot of people are replacing them with a certain colour LED with a resistor in-line so it worked on the same voltage. I might do this at a later date along with the cigarette lights, and dash dials but i quite like the green Thomas...................

[jtbo]

When you search with these words led "t4.2" you get ton of results from leds that you just put into place of bulb, should give nice green colour too if led is something sensible color itself and not those stupid blue things

I have flood light here that is led, exactly same color as halogen flood light, they can do pretty good ones.

[Chris_C]

Don't forget the green comes from the filter in the gauges, not the light itself