Really weird Euro light behavior
james accordino
ssgacc at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 5 07:26:25 EST 2003
Both low beams work. The high on the left is out.
I'm still trying to determine where the power is
coming from when the key is off/out. I really think
now it's either a bad relay or the combi switch.
Jim Accordino
--- Kent McLean <kentmclean at mindspring.com> wrote:
> james accordino <ssgacc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Low Beam- low beam on left, low and hi on right, hi
> >beam indicator 1/2 bright.
>
> I recall that it's possible to mix the ground wires
> on
> the headlights (don't know exactly how; that's why
> we have some EEs on the list). The result is that
> when one low-beam light burns out, electricity can
> feed back through ground to the high beam, causing
> it to glow at less than 100%.
>
> Or something like that. I'm hoping this will jog
> someone
> with a better memory and more knowledge than me.
>
> Kent
> '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy"
>
>
>
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