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"Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 2:18 pm
by hyperdrinky
Hi Guys,

Is the Mk2 supposed to have a buzzer to let you know when the headlights have been left on? I often leave for work when its dark and by the time I get there its light. I (very) often leave the lights on. I'm just wondering if there is supposed to be one as standard before I grab the soldering iron.

Thanks guys,
Hyperdrinky

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 2:39 pm
by ianaudia4
No, I have never seen one.
I have seen some aftermarket ones though.

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 2:40 pm
by Risocco
US had them didn't they? Seen the relays on Votex before now at least...

Alex

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 4:40 pm
by the edmundator
No, nothing as standard. A GTX I had was fitted with an aftermarket one and made the most annoying noise imaginable.

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:43 pm
by Blueshark
Use relay number 292 in place 7 of the fuse box and you wil not foret your lights again. :yahoo:

Greetings, Joost

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:14 pm
by jxp
mmmm....sounds very interesting... Someone give it a go...my car still six foot under snow...

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:47 pm
by Thainoodle
Blueshark wrote:Use relay number 292 in place 7 of the fuse box and you wil not foret your lights again. :yahoo:

Greetings, Joost
Something to do with the horn? :hehe:

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:23 pm
by hyperdrinky
Nice. Lol.

Would have thought that would have been on cars right back to the early 70s (being a spring chicken of 26 I wouldn't remember that far back). Can you still get these aftermarket ones these days? don't suppose there is a market for it anymore.

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:57 pm
by james butler
you could take a live feed from the light circuit through the buzzer and down to one of the door pin switches that operates the interior light. with the lights turned on, opening the door completes the circuit and the buzzer will buzz.

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:39 pm
by Blueshark
Nope,

It is an original buzzer from VW.

Made for our type of cars but mostly used in the Passat.

So look for it in the junkyard and try it in your car, plug and play.

Greetings, Joost
Thainoodle wrote:
Blueshark wrote:Use relay number 292 in place 7 of the fuse box and you wil not foret your lights again. :yahoo:

Greetings, Joost
Something to do with the horn? :hehe:

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:01 pm
by DJPremier
Yep. Relay 292 does just as described. This relay can also be had out of SEATs. I have one fitted to my T25 van, also in slot 7, and it makes a most pleasant pinging sound, not an angry buzz. On the van I had to also change the intermittent wiper relay (19) for a programmable relay 99 for this to work though.

I'll be trying it out on the rocco now. Top mod if it works there too !

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:11 pm
by the edmundator
Good info... I seem to remember the programmable wiper relay being a mod for the rocco as well. I might need a lights-on buzzer now I have a daily that sorts the lights out for me.

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:09 am
by Ryan
How did I not hear of this magical relay before?
I have a how to somewhere of retro wiring the lights on buzzer...but it seems this relay would make it irrelevant.

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:48 pm
by Reverend Frog
Amazing info...this should be made into a sticky

Re: "Lights On" Buzzer

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:18 pm
by hyperdrinky
Anyone know where I can get one of these relays off the shelf?

Hyperdrinky