melting headlight switch on 4000

[nwloves]

I figured them to be the left and right front corners, tail lights, license
plate light and the instrument lights in the center of the switch and the
headlights being at the end of the switch (12ga stuff).
I'm still cleaning my hands from the surgery and all works well.
I left the instrument lighting to the switch as well as the headlights
(already relayed) and relayed the tails and corners with a relay powered
from the battery an triggered by one of the gray and black wires.
All thanks to Huw and his imput.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Huw Powell" <audi at mediaone.net>
To: "Kneale Brownson" <knotnook at traverse.com>
Cc: <one at humanspeakers.com>; <dcrismon at mongoose.slip.net>;
<quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: melting headlight switch on 4000


>
>
> Kneale Brownson wrote:
> >
> > When I was "surfing" Audifans.com archives for advice on fixing the
> > headlight switch in one of my 4kq's, which had the wiring harness
connector
> > melted onto the switch body so that I had to splice in new harness wires
> > with new metal ends (just try finding THOSE) for the new connector to
> > connect to the new switch,  I read the real culprits were the wires
going
> > to the back of the car rather than to the headlights.  My meltdown was
in
> > the several (was it three) wires side-by-side in the middle of the
harness
> > end.  Anyone know where those wires go and how to relay them?
>
> those three are the left, right and interior circuits of the parking
> light system.
>
> trigger a relay with one that still works and run all three from the
> relay.
>
> over wattage headlights are also an issue.
>
> note that the flash to pass feature runs all four hi filaments off the
> parking light power source.
>
> --
> Huw Powell
>
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