type44T Eurolight install Nightmare

[Kneale Brownson]

Relay those suckers before you burn out your wiring connectors at the 
switch.  I'll bet your low beam performance gets better too.



At 03:21 AM 08/21/2001 -0400, JordanVw at aol.com wrote:

>ok, here goes...
>i got a set of eurolights from a 200TQ in a wrecking yard..  the car was
>strange..it had the DOT style wiring - but the factory plugs were the 4 prong
>female plastic Euro plug that plugged right into the back of the eurolight,
>complete with boots and all.  it was like that from the factory...not
>spliced, all original.
>
>in other words - imagine the DOT style wiring, but with the Euro female plug
>on it.
>never seen anything like it..
>anyway..
>so with this setup, im thinking ..."wow" all i have to do is cut and splice
>this DOT/Euro harness onto my existing harness, just snip off the DOT 9004
>style female plugs, and solder the DOT style "euro" harness on..  the junked
>200TQ was running 55w H3's, and 55w H4's.. ...so if they were running it like
>that on that car - with the DOT style wiring, without any relays, then it
>must have worked, im thinking.
>
>well, i snipped my 9004 connectors off of my harness, and soldered the (about
>a foot) i cut off of the junked 200tq, onto my harness.
>plugged it all in, and....whee!!!!  everything works, no "bulb out" warning
>lite in the autocheck either.
>so everything works fine...
>but..
>the light output STILL SUCKS.  the Eurolights with 55w H4's (low beams), and
>stock harness, is not any better than the DOT low beams..
>
>the high beams, however, are alot brighter than the DOT high beams.   but, i
>cant run hi-beams all the time because people flash me..   and also, it feels
>like my headlight switch behing the steering wheel is getting hot when i run
>the hi-beams.....
>
>so everything works, but the low beam light output is not any better than the
>stock DOT's.
>
>if i run the high beams now with the 55w H4's/55wH3's, will it burn out my
>headlight switch?
>and if i want to upgrade to 80/100w H4's what do i do now, that i've snipped
>off the DOT connectors, being that you need them on there to plug into, in
>order to use the Blau harness..???
>
>any help would be appreciated
>chris
>'86 5kT sans grille