VW Electrics

Dedicated to sorting out the dodgy wiring in your classic air cooled VW

PLEASE NOTE – this site is under a huge amount of construction. It doesn’t even have much of a structure to it as yet let alone a design. I know it looks cack – please don’t remind me! I do have a full time job so updates and clean-ups will happen sporadically, but they will happen.  LAST UPDATED: 19 AUGUST 2007

 

Articles:

Battery basics

Should I rewire my VW?

A typical VW Baywindow’s electrics

Removing the wiring from a 1303 “Super Beetle”

Wiring neatness – NEW! Just a random collection of rewiring goodness.

 

Diagrams of individual components:

Dynamo wiring diagram

Alternator wiring diagram

Alternator with external regulator

Headlight relay

 

Fully redesigned wiring diagrams:

Bug with Alternator

Bug with Dynamo

Van with Alternator! – Added the missing wire the headlight relay and corrected some of the dodgy spelling.

PLEASE NOTE: The above wiring diagrams are complete redesigns and do not correspond with the original VW wiring layout. Also they are just drafts for the moment to give you an idea what to expect. They do not have a hazard light circuit (this will be in a separate file due to the complexities of the hazard light switch) and the headlight relay layouts are a bit weird.

 

DISCLAIMER – I can not be held responsible for any fire, death, brimstone, injury, alien invasion, loss or death of handbag crab or anything else that may occur from using the information contained in this website.

 

This website is Copyright © 2007 Wayne Dearden.

Copying any part of the articles in this website and pasting it onto an internet forum tech section and trying to pass it off as your own knowledge is strictly prohibited.

 

This means you, Nic.