Can an Australian turn signal switch work in a Swiss?

[michaelh712]

I have a NOS Australian turn signal switch and I'd like to replace my old Swiss one. Trouble is, the wiring is different. The Swiss has 7 wires and the Australian one only 5. 4 of the 7 are the same.

Swiss Australian
Brown Brown
Brn/wht Brn/wht
Blk/wht/gr Blk/wht/gr
Blk/wht Blk/wht

Blk/red Blk/gr
Blk/purple
Blk/yellow

Any thoughts or inspiration? Also, if this cant work, anyone recall the VW Bus replacement that is a direct match?

thanks
Michael

[Jim LaGuardia]

No, Austrian switch will not work in a Swiss truck, one type shares circuits (brake/turn)and the other does not.

[michaelh712]

Thanks Jim, I always appreciate your experience and expertise.
regards, Michael

[pcolette]

The VW part is #211953513J from a '72 VW Bus. They are hard to come by and expensive as I recall. The same number with a G suffix from a 68-71 Bus will also work but the wire colors are not the same. I have a new repro unit of 211953513G with the wires marked for a Pinz if you're interested. Or if you just need the wire color cross reference I have that too. pm me if you need it.

SAV has the Swiss switch for sale again but it's not cheap.

[Profpinz]

Gee's you had me interested there for a minute ......but yes, I think you mean "Austrian", not "Australian" (they are about 9000 miles/15,000 km apart )

In the 80's the Australian military looked at buying Pinzgauers and SDP were talking with GM Australia about building the vehicles.
I understand that part of the "deal" was that the vehicles had a certain ammount of Australian-made content and rumours suggest that some local manufacturing companies (like Hella) supplied some "example" prototype components ....... and I had thought that maybe the turn signal switch was one such rare example.