86 4000q with no headlights

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In a message dated 1/9/02 1:34:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
cr4ck3r at hotmail.com writes:


> Here's the situation.    My quattro has no headlights.    First the left
> one went out and I thought that it just died but then the other one went out
> too.      So my first thought was that the switch went out and I went
> searching and found nothing.    Then I checked the headlight itself.    The
> ground wire on both headlights is completely fried.    The plastic is all
> burned and warped.    What would possibly cause this.    I'm going to
> replace the headlight assembly to remedy the problem but I would like to
> figure out the reason for this so that it doesn't happen again.    Pretty
> scary to think that my headlights equally started to burn up.    Looks as
> though they were close to catching fire.   Scary.

sounds like someone put higher wattage bulbs in there w/o running relays,
etc..