my hi/lo switch just crapped and the lights died completely before the switch quit for good. Maybe that's what happened to you? If anyone knows how to change the switch on a 1990 3.1L Corsica please post.

Thanks

Freaker

I had same problem on 89 Corsica. Hi/lo switch under dash and hard to take off unless you remove steering column so I unplugged switch and plugged in new switch and set new switch on low beam and wired switch to column. Now have low beams but since new switch not connected to activator rod (which goes to turn signal handle) as old switch still attached to activator rod, only have low beams. New switch about ten dollars. On 89 there is ground wire on body in front of battery. First, unbolt and clean ground, as bad ground can make lights inoperative so if you are lucky, cleaning ground could solve problem.

It was a sport version of the normal car. It had different wheels, paint, interior accessories, etc. Kind of a collectable if it's in half way decent shape.

Looking in the engine bay it's on the top left side of the motor under the sheet metal for the engine cooling tin.

You have to take the tin off in order to access the oil cooler. The cooling air for the cylinders also routes some of the air to the oil cooler. I comes _out_ the front of the tin right on top of the #3 exhaust pipe.

In my experience, little as it may be,there is a possibility that the problem lies in the cables that run from the cab to the engine compartment. I would start there.

High beam light is out!

yes but u need an adapter to fit the wider rims,i have a set on eBay look under vw beetle adapter,

Yes

yes it will,

the wiring as followed;

yellow - fuel guage right side

brown- Ground, it just hooks on to the speedo housing (might be 3 or 4)

blue- Generator

blue/green (could be green / red) - Oil pressure

blue white - Hi beam light

green with a black wire - green middle light under (turnsignal) black up to

fuel guage left side (holding the speedo wires toward you

white/red - instrument lights (two joined togeather on the top

check in the glove compartment for a lever on the left side. push it down and head to the front and push the button on the hood release. make sure the lever is in the up position before you go to close it back up.

Put the back of the car on jackstands and crawl under. It is on the right side of the car (passenger side on a left-hand-drive car, driver side on a right-hand-drive car) on the side of the transmission, all the way at the back of the transmission.

Low beam bulb is burnt out. Replace it.

The gas milage of a sedan is 40 and the gas milage of a normal one is 25

Somewhere around 2000lb/850KG. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle

Get the Bug Me DVD on electrics.

***OR***

visit: http://www.1302super.com/page19a.html for an official VW wiring diagram (Super Beetle only)

31-40 mpg

Bulbs Multifunction switch - The headlight switch on these go bad they run about $100 but are not to bad to replace. I would think that that is the most likely problem.

Fuse usually in the power distribution block under hood

1963

It could be a few things.

The first thing I do is turn the car on and look at the two idiot lights in the speedometer. If they didn't both come on, your problem is somewhere between the battery and the coil. The electricity to power the coil, which is where your spark comes from, comes out of the battery, goes through a 40-year-old piece of wire, a 40-year-old switch, a 40-year-old fusebox with possibly a 40-year-old fuse in it, then through ANOTHER 40-year-old wire (which is running past the transmission so it gets nice and hot all the time, which damages wire) through the firewall to the coil. There are LOTS of points of failure there!

If you have voltage at the coil, there are not many things it could be:

The condenser could be fried.

The rotor could be dirty.

The coil could be bad.

The points could be misadjusted.

The wire from the coil to the distributor could be bad.

Or, best of all, the distributor could be loose and popped out so it's not making contact with the distributor drive.

Hardtop Super Beetles were made between 1971 and 1975. For the 1976 to 1979 model years, the Beetle convertibles were based on the Super.

The windshield on the super beetle (and all super beetles) is rounded and makes a little dash board. The regular beetles windshield is flat and has no dash.

Irgleloid

Not true '71 and '72 Super beetles still have flat windshields, the curved windshield on a super beetle started in 1973 and also had non flat bigger plastic dashboard.

You first have to set the valves, check the spark plug gap on all four cylinders (0.028"), and set the points. Use a dwell meter to do this; the "official VW specification" is 50 degrees of dwell plus/minus 2 degrees. Once you've done this, start the car and drive it five miles.

Timing at idle is officially 5 degrees after TDC. Hook up your timing light. If you have an original crank pulley, there's a notch in it. Put a little white paint on that notch. Start the engine, loosen the distributor clamp a little, aim the timing light at the pulley, pull the trigger, and rotate the distributor until the notch is aligned with the seam between the two case halves. Then tighten the distributor and adjust idle to 1500 rpm.