Will Feather

Whoa! Lilredpo, you are freakishly close to me.

lilredpo

If you ever need any help, please let me know. My knowledge is limited, but I can turn a wrench.

Toran

Still looking for this little plastic socket. Anyone know where to locate it or a replacement?

T.I.A.

Jim 944S

Still looking for this little plastic socket. Anyone know where to locate it or a replacement?

Volkswagen, IIRC...

Do a search "IceShark and "socket"... see if it comes up!

Jim 1987 944S

Jim 944S

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Donald, I'm getting pretty good at customs forms and have now shipped stuff as far away as New Zealand and Australia so Canada is no problem. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

Robert, I want the reverse all red just from a style issue. I think a white rectangle doesn't look good. If anything I would have thin horizontal white stripes. But if these more powerful bulbs test out OK, I'll go solid red.

John, no problem. I'm doing all this stuff to my car so these bulbs will have to make the grade.

I took apart my rear lenses to add a socket and bulb for the dead lens cell that Porsche never lit up, the lower middle one. VW dealers sell the bulb socket for $3 each, sort of expensive for a 10 cent part but what can you do? The part number is 111-945-265 for those that want to do this.

Anyway, as I was looking at the bulbs, most had thin black tungsten deposits on the glass envelope. If you set them on a white sheet of paper you can see it. While the bulbs still work the deposits cut down on light output more than you would suspect. Probably 50%. So, I'm just going to replace all the #1156 and #97 bulbs.

If you folks want to do this also I can order a bunch of these bulbs. For the 1156's a major brand will probably cost about 75 cents while the asian ones would be about 26 cents. 97's would be about the same. I will go with a major but I wanted to let people know the prices on the asian bulbs you see in Pep Boys.

There it is!

Jim 1987 944S

Jfrahm

Have your taillights been tinted? The plastic looks a bit dark.

You can get rebased 50 watt halogen bulbs to fit, but I do not know if they would melt the plastic or overstress the wiring.

-Joel.

Toran

Thanks for the VW part number 111-945-265

Bart

You can buy a higher wattage lamp but be careful you don't get too high a wattage. It will melt the plastic surround.

Don't ask how I know this.

marcoturbo

What kind of wattage did you use before melting your lenses ?

I now run 35w bulbs for brake and reverse lights (Narva 796) and by now no problem noticed.

Wipeout

I believe that empty spot is a provision for Euro foglights...

Bart

That's what I have. Came wired that way on mine.

I don't recall the wattage now. But I know I had to lower the wattage in the Euro foglight spots because the plastic was melting. They were BRIGHT!

Jim 944S

I now run 35w bulbs for brake and reverse lights (Narva 796) and by now no problem noticed.

Iceshark seemed to feel that was the max safely possible.

Jim 1987 944S