Re: Instrument bulbs

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

Have you tried places like AR Ricambi  in Alhambra CA
1-800-225-2532

Or Alfa Parts in Berkeley CA
1-510-525-9435

Often we tend to ASSUME that new parts aren't available anymore on 
these old cars. For instance, my GTV-6 has a factory sunroof. There is 
plastic escutcheon plate under the lock handle which covers the hole in 
the headliner. Since this plastic piece sits up next to the roof panel 
it bakes in the heat of the sun as the roof panel gets hot. Eventually, 
this piece becomes brittle and breaks. I checked with every Alfa 
wrecking yard I could find in both the USA and England looking for a 
good one. Nobody had one that wasn't cracked or broken. So, out of 
desperation, I called AR RIcambi -knowing that they certainly wouldn't 
have a piece like that, especially since all of them had deteriorated 
in all the cars fitted with a sunroof. "Sure," the guy at AR Ricambi 
said. "I've got  plenty of them, How many do you need -$15 each." Since 
then I've stopped assuming that new parts for my GTV-6 don't exist and 
I call the factory parts suppliers FIRST, then I go to the 
dismantlers........


George Graves
'86 GTV-6

On Monday, October 21, 2002, at 05:07  AM, alfa-digest wrote:


> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:17:39 -0700 (PDT)
> From: James Montebello <jamesm@domain.elided>
> Subject: Instrument bulbs
>
> Has anyone found a good generic replacement for the tiny instrument 
> bulbs
> found in the Alfetta/GTV6?  The Sylvania 74 is very close, but the bulb
> section is just a tad too big (like 0.5mm too big).  The fuel pressure
> indicator in my Alfetta wasn't working because of the bulb.  I moved 
> the
> fan bulb over (why do I need a light to tell me the defroster fan is 
> on?),
> but I can't do this again w/o losing a light I want to keep. :-)
>
> james montebello
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