High Beams turn the lights off - 1990 200

[LL - NY]

Huw is right on the colors of the headlight leads. And, in case you hadn't
figured it out, brown is ground. As for contact cleaners, try DeOxit. I
believe
the red is for mixed metals, since we don't know what's exactly inside the
switch.

HTH,

LL - NY

On 8/17/07, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Perhaps someone has already diagnosed this problem.
> >
> > Low beams work fine
> >
> > Pulling the lever to flash the high beams works fine
> >
> > Pushing the lever forward to engage high beams - turns the lights off
> >
> > I'm suspicious of the switch, and from reading the wiring diagrams - I
> > believe the yellow wire coming from the switch should give power to the
> > high beams?
>
> As I recall, yellow is low, white is high.
>
> And, yes, I'd suspect the switch.  Try cleaning it (squirt some "stuff"
> into it and operate it a few times.  Don't use "stuff" that attacks
> plastic, of course).
>
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