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Re: VDO Oil gauge bulb/holder
Posted: 08 Mar 2012 01:42 am
by macplaxton
Looking good!
Sorry about the lack of bulb updates, but the main camera has got buried in the move and the moby, well....
Re: VDO Oil gauge bulb/holder
Posted: 08 Mar 2012 01:49 am
by 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........................
Re: VDO Oil gauge bulb/holder
Posted: 08 Mar 2012 09:18 am
by macplaxton
Fairly certain they are the same.

Re: VDO Oil gauge bulb/holder
Posted: 08 Mar 2012 09:47 pm
by 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....................
Re: VDO Oil gauge bulb/holder
Posted: 10 Mar 2012 11:38 am
by MCHUDD
Re: VDO Oil gauge bulb/holder
Posted: 10 Mar 2012 11:34 pm
by Attack2001
Aha nope its no problem

Thanks for sending me the holder, im feeling the fellow 300 owner love on this forum

Thomas...............
Re: VDO Oil gauge bulb/holder
Posted: 11 Mar 2012 08:50 am
by 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.
Re: VDO Oil gauge bulb/holder
Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:36 pm
by Attack2001
jtbo wrote: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...................
Re: VDO Oil gauge bulb/holder
Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:57 pm
by 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.
Re: VDO Oil gauge bulb/holder
Posted: 11 Mar 2012 11:35 pm
by Chris_C
Don't forget the green comes from the filter in the gauges, not the light itself
