Delay dim interior lights

 Installing a delay dim interior light in drivers side.

Light is from a late ’80′s early ’90′s golf/jetta carat/wolfsburg models, looks like standard vanagon interior light with some added circuitry, (VW part number, 191947111 “interior light with delayed switch-off”). Get it with the connector, cut the wires on donor about 4 inches long.

Stock drivers side interior light pries out. Cut the wires about 2" from light, or pull off spade connections if you want to connect to new light via male/female spades. Pictures below shows but connecters used.

Very simple splicing, 2 red wires (power) on van to the light’s 2 reds, the 2 brown wires on van (ground) to matching 2, and the brown with white stripe on van (switched ground, door switch) to matching wire. 

Reinstall light. Its about a 6-8 second delay after last door closes.

The bonus is that the delay works on all the lights and all the doors, slider, back hatch, pass. door (if you have door switches on slider and back hatch ). Yup, just by installing that one light at driver’s position.