Speedo indicator light colour

karmann54 Officially Full-On Dubber

337 posts · joined Nov 2002 · 25 Jun 2003, 11:26 am

#60285

I am getting the speedo rebuilt in my '54, can anyone confirm what colour the double arrow indicator warning light should be on the speedo face. The other warning lights are red on left and green on right.

However I have seen both red and green for the indicator light. Most have faded to clear by now, so can be hard to tell.

Any help would be appreciated.

Angus

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 25 Jun 2003, 11:48 am

#60298

My 56 indicator light is green, but i have also seen red as well.

Dont think anyone will take that much notice of it. So go with whatever colour you can get easiest.

More so make sure you have an 80MPH face and not a 90MPH or equilivant in Klms

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karmann54 Officially Full-On Dubber

337 posts · joined Nov 2002 · 25 Jun 2003, 1:54 pm

#60337

Thanks for that, yeah I guess it doesn't matter too much. The one on my '63 ghia is green, but the 120 kmh speedo currently in the '54 is red. (dated 1.54)

The one I am putting in there is a 80mph, dated 10.54. Pretty close for a 12.54 car build date!

Changing back to a mph speedo as when I got a birth certificate for the car from Stiftung AutoMuseum, it specifically stated as an option that it had mph speedo. Pretty anal but I want to make it as correct as possible.

Thanks again.

Phil74Camper Head in the Clouds

2,703 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 25 Jun 2003, 2:09 pm

#60348

You should be able to tell when you pull the speedo apart. The colour comes from a transluscent plastic sheet, cut small enough so it just covers the arrow blinker hole, and/or one of the warning lights. Sure the bit you look through has faded to clear, but you'll see the original colour on the rest of the plastic when you pull it apart. It's stuck to the back of the metal face with a couple of dabs of glue.

You can buy coloured plastic offcuts from art shops, and model aeroplane shops also sell it.

karmann54 Officially Full-On Dubber

337 posts · joined Nov 2002 · 25 Jun 2003, 5:04 pm

#60427

Thats what I was hoping to do, but when I opened it up there was nothing there at all, not even rattling around loose at the bottom.

I will put in green, as thats what I have. Seems a good enough reason to me.

Thanks to all for the replies,

silver Dangerous when poked

2,169 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 25 Jun 2003, 7:20 pm

#60463

Wolfsburg west sell lens kits for restoring speedos they have red green and orange lenses

Keeping it real !

amazer kombi pilot

3,187 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Jun 2003, 2:27 pm

#60698

karmann54 wrote:The one I am putting in there is a 80mph, dated 10.54. Pretty close for a 12.54 car build date!

you probably wont get any 12.54 cars with 12.54 speedos. They were made by outside supplier so probably got a box of 10,000 at a time. Unless you get the first speedo out of a fresh box.

Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf

aussiebug Officially Full-On Dubber

246 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 26 Jun 2003, 5:32 pm

#60750

I've never seen INDICATOR lights in the speedo that were OTHER than green.

The early colour sceme for the three lights (as far as I know) was red for Gen, green for oil and green for indicators (I learned to drive in the 60 bug in 67 and that's how it was back then anyway).

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56astro Custom Title Time!

1,772 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Jun 2003, 7:54 pm

#60795

My '56 was green for oil, red for gen, red for semaphores.

There was some confusion here on another thread about the gen/oil colour. I checked my manuals and they had both angles covered. So basically use either red or green.

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