86 4000q with no headlights

[Kneale Brownson]

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Relays wouldn't help prevent melted connectors/plastic light buckets if too
high a wattage bulbs are installed.  They only help prevent overheating the
rest of the car's usual wiring.


At 01:44 AM 01/09/2002 -0500, JordanVw at aol.com wrote:

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>In a message dated 1/9/02 1:34:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>cr4ck3r at hotmail.com writes:
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> > 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.
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>sounds like someone put higher wattage bulbs in there w/o running relays,
>etc..
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