86 4000q with no headlights

[Larry C Leung]

Was just about to write that. Ask me how I know..... BTW, the only
9004/9007 type connectors that seem capable of handling a bit more
current (don't really know how much though) that I've seen are on the
ones from an '85 - '88 VW Golf and GTi with Aeros (don't know about the
Jettas, most I've seen at the yard seem to have smaller wires in the
sockets). Just be sure to get the ones with the 12/10 ga wire.

LL - NY

On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 07:03:04 -0500 Kneale Brownson
<knotnook at traverse.com> writes:
>--
>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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>>[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
>>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..
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>