Interior Heater Knobs Question

[bmw156]

Hey guys,

the 3 heater knobs in the golf. should these illuminate.

as mine dont and its really annoying lol.

i have seen joe has done his in LED and i saw the how to, to do them in LED.

any help thanks

[vdubnut]

yup they do light up single tiny bulb... search on here for heater controls (theres a few how to do's) its pretty easy though 10 min job got my bulg from halfords

[benvictors]

yup they do light up single tiny bulb... search on here for heater controls (theres a few how to do's) its pretty easy though 10 min job got my bulg from halfords

You got yr bulg from Halfords!!??!!
You really do like cars dont you 

[VR6-Joe]

I've got a spare bulb we can change it when we change the ashtray surround unless you're going to get the ashtray surround and side repeaters elsewhere

[bmw156]

yeh joe i might take you up on that

will talk on msn

[VR6-Joe]

Sweet, no problem

[jezza16v]

The switch cover to the middle knob just clips off, you pull out the green optic thing and you can see the tiny bulb deep in the hole in the middle of the knob. You need very long thin nose pliers to pull the bulb out or you can be clever and use some thin flexible tube to push over it and pull/suck it out, takes 2 min. I did it the hard way by taking the surround & ashtray all out and then dismantled the switch from the back, took 20 min. Thought I'd been clever, then my son, who is a VW techy showed me the proper way........doh!!!!!!!!!   :embarassed:

[VR6-Joe]

The switch cover to the middle knob just clips off, you pull out the green optic thing and you can see the tiny bulb deep in the hole in the middle of the knob. You need very long thin nose pliers to pull the bulb out or you can be clever and use some thin flexible tube to push over it and pull/suck it out, takes 2 min. I did it the hard way by taking the surround & ashtray all out and then dismantled the switch from the back, took 20 min. Thought I'd been clever, then my son, who is a VW techy showed me the proper way........doh!!!!!!!!!   :embarassed:

I've always done it by removing the astray + surround, never done it the way you just mentioned. Never takes me 20 minutes though, more like 5 minutes

[jezza16v]

The switch cover to the middle knob just clips off, you pull out the green optic thing and you can see the tiny bulb deep in the hole in the middle of the knob. You need very long thin nose pliers to pull the bulb out or you can be clever and use some thin flexible tube to push over it and pull/suck it out, takes 2 min. I did it the hard way by taking the surround & ashtray all out and then dismantled the switch from the back, took 20 min. Thought I'd been clever, then my son, who is a VW techy showed me the proper way........doh!!!!!!!!!   :embarassed:

I've always done it by removing the astray + surround, never done it the way you just mentioned. Never takes me 20 minutes though, more like 5 minutes

Well, maybe 5min if you have nimble fingers, but I'm a bit kak at fiddley stuff. Anyway, next time the bulb blows (in 15 yrs maybe) I'll do it the proper way VW designed it to be done. It can be a pig getting the knob cover off but I've tried it myself now and it does come off with a bit of a squeze, mind you I never tried getting the bulb out. Anyway, the proper and quickest way, if you've got the right kit, is to pop the knob off and do it from the front. 

[VR6-Joe]

I'm actually going to go outside and try this because I fail to see my bulb coming through a gap in the centre of the middle control knob lol