Hello everybody 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel and today it's an overview of the lights on the
Volkswagen T5 Transporter, The Beast. I'll cover all the external lights and the bulbs and also the
internal lights, I'll put various links throughout the video on how to change some of the bulbs all
right let's get cracking, as soon as you turn the ignition on your daytime running bulbs will be
coming on and that is these two in the middle here at the front the rear lights do not come
on it's literally just the two front daytime running bulbs, now if we leave the ignition on
I'll take you through the main headlight switch moving it to the middle puts on your side lights
so this turns off the daytime running bulbs and puts on your side lights to the front and the rear
lights, the next switch is your headlights you can also adjust the beam angle of your
headlights and I'll cover that a bit later on, and then if you want high beam if you want distance
you can turn that on permanently by pushing the stalk forwards so the high beam is now on
if you just want to flash you can just pull it towards you
like this and I'll just demonstrate how that works on a night road so this is the normal headlights
and then if we switch it to high beam you just get a lot more distance but obviously you don't have
that on if you've got cars coming towards you because you will blind them, now if you want to
put the rear fog lights on you literally just pull that switch out towards you then you get
this icon on the dashboard and the rear fog light comes on, and this will only be on the driver's
side so don't think it's going to fail an MOT if the other light hasn't come on because it's only
got one! To turn that all off just push the switch back in then turn it back into the off position.
If I now push the brake pedal that puts on the two rear brake lights and the one
underneath the spoiler the LED lights, now if I put it into reverse push the clutch down
pull up the gear lever put it into reverse I've actually got some rear
reversing sensors on here on the radio and you've got the two rear lights coming on
there and then the reversing sensors showing you how close you're getting, careful Lurgs,
if you've broken down you can put on your hazard lights by pushing this red triangle
here this puts on your hazard lights all around so this is all indicators front and back and side
the indicators are self-explanatory, did you know that you've also got a soft touch indicator
if you're on a Motorway and you just want to change lanes you can pull it down gently and it
will just put the indicator on for a couple of seconds then automatically turn it off,
with the main headlights on you can actually adjust the beam of it up and down now this is
really useful if you've got a large load in the back of your Van that means that your headlights
are going to be pointing upwards so what you can do is you can adjust the front beams so
they then point downwards otherwise your lights are going to be pointing up in the sky and be
next to useless blinding everyone coming towards you, and you do that by using this dial here now
normally for day driving just leave it on the dash position that's for any MOTs or normal driving
now it does go up to 3 I'll just show you how that works if you have it on
number 3 that lowers the beam all the way down as far as it will go
if you have it on the dash that makes it higher
When you're driving at night you can adjust the brightness of your dashboard lights that's
all your interior lights the main dashboard plus all your LED instruments so brighter
and then lower so you can just set that to whatever comfort that you would like.
Now I'll cover the main internal lights oh look at this Cookie Monster looking out for me Cookie
Monster cookies cookies, so normally I've got this in the zero position that means the internal
lights are off you put it into this position that means the internal lights here are permanently on
if you have it on this switch it means the lights are only lit when you open the door
either the passenger or the driver's door and it'll automatically go out after about 45 seconds,
I'm just going to set it back to the middle position which is off this is just a reading
lamp for your passenger and a reading lamp for the driver obviously you wouldn't be
reading when you're driving it's only if you stopped because you're going to turn those off,
now let's go into the rear of the Van these two rear lights work independently of the main switch
at the front so you've got the same options on these lights here it's set at the moment in the
middle which is only come on when the doors are open so you can either push it and that is off
that's when the doors are open and that one is for it to be permanently on, on the middle
setting when you get in and shut the door it will turn off after about 10 or 15 seconds likewise
when you exit the Van and lock the doors it will also turn off, and we've also got these side step
lights here these always come on when you open the door and these automatically go out as soon
as you start driving or if you're not driving they go off after about four or five minutes,
now you might think there's a light inside your glove box and there actually isn't which is really
annoying all I've got in here is the Cookie Monster! Cookies cookies must have cookies,
let's put him back into his normal position so he can keep an eye on me safe driving,
and I tell you what I think that deserves a lovely cup of tea and some cookies! In
the top left there's a video on how to change your pollen filter that's an annual job in the
top right the fuse box locations and the secret fuses and how to test them and in
the bottom left the OBD2 port location hope that was useful to you. 'Lurgs'