Re: Voltmeter

["Aaron D. Patton" <apatton1@airmail.net>]

MY '79 S 'Rocco came stock with the same extra gauges your GTi did, Volt and
Oil Temp.  However the Volt gauge was ditched in favor of a VDO Oil Pressure
gauge.
Aaron
- -----Original Message-----
From: Wm. Josiah Erikson <josiah@gsinet.net>
To: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: Voltmeter


>Lots of VW's came stock with a VDO voltmeter, including my Rabbit GTi (as
did
>all Rabbit GTi's- actually, they all came with a voltmeter AND an oil temp
>guage, and some even came with an oil pressure guage- '83's, I think), and
my
>'86 Scirocco 8v. It's my impression that later Scirocco 8v's came with a
>voltmeter, while early Scirocco II's came with an oil temp guage... Then
you
>get up to a '92 GTi, and they don't have either! What gives? lame...
>    -Josiah
>    '83 Scirocco (not for long!)
>    '84 GTi (soon to be resurrected, thanks to Brian Honnold)
>    '86 Scirocco (broken frame... still)
>    '87 QSW (daily driver)
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>Ilias Glavinas wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Daniel A. Nowlan wrote:
>>
>> > Brian Honnold wrote:
>> > >
>> > > How do ya'll have your voltmeters hooked up?  I just plugged mine
into
>> > > the same power wire that runs to the oil temp guage and I get some
>> > > funky  readings.  Like 13 when cold, 12 when the fan comes on and a
>> > > jumpy needle with the turn signals.
>> >
>> > Well, mine is hooked up stock like this: BLUE AND WHITE striped wire
>> > that is hot when the ignition is on and a BROWN wire that's the ground
>> > to the back of the gauge.  I normally run about 13.2 volts with the car
>>
>> Ideally you would like the voltmeter leads to be connected straight to
>> the poles of the battery, but that's kind of a pain, and I don't think
>> any of us in here would like to draw two extra wires through the firewall
>> to have the extra .1 or .2 V of accuracy. Easiest way to give positive V
>> to the volmeter is to tap off the +12V of the oil temp gauge.
>> Also: when you say "stock", you are perplexing me. I haven't seen any
>> VWs besides Cabriolets and Jetta GLIs that came with a stock vdo
voltmeter.
>>
>> Ilias
>>
>> ps: glad you have temporarily ditched any plans to trade your Scirocco
>> :-)
>>
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