Dodgy Main Beam

[Mitch]

Hi All

 

My car has developed an annoying fault,

 

I have side lights, Headlights, but when i pull lever to flash only one main beam lights up? (Drivers) :gdit:

 

When i push lever away, to put mains on properly the passenger light goes to side? and the drivers side goes to main. :gdit:

 

I have checked connections and all seams well. :boohoo:

 

As im U S at the electric side any tips.

 

Or electricians at newark this weekend, we could have a drive in car clinic

 

Mitch

[Les Welsher]

Mitch,

could it be that your main beam part of bulb has blown on the near side.

 

Les

[Guest Ianz]

dd

[Mitch]

No, Just changed to Halogens, it was the same with the sealed beam

 

mitch

[Guest Ianz]

Mitch

 

Check the earth at the steering column,their's an earth that goes to the

socket of the lighting swith connector,.......assuming your using Sierra switches!!

This earth was missing on my car and I had some really strange lighting effects.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers Ian

[Guest minty]

Hey deja vu ! I had allsorts of funny headlight issues after running OK for a year. A helpful electrician at work gave me a daily "check this out" list - eventually I found it was an earth into one of the relays - despite me having checked the cable with a meter (which buzzed to say it was a good earth) - turns out that under load, just being connected to earth is not enough - the connection needs to be 100% or close - seems a meter will say all "OK" even at 1% when just checking for continuity .

 

If it sounds as if I know what I'm on about - don't believe it !

 

In summary - check out the earth routes to each lighting relay (they all connect to each other in a strange conspiracy !) by placing a direct fly lead to earth on them !

 

Good luck .