[s-cars] Euro Lights question

djdawson2 at aol.com djdawson2 at aol.com
Fri Jun 24 12:24:44 EDT 2005


 Somewhere, you have a bad ground... that behavior is typical when something is poorly grounded.  You need to check all of the ground posts inside each headlight assembly... there's one for each bulb.  Somewhere you're loosing it, and getting feedback causing dimly lit bulbs and indicators.
Good luck.
Dave
 
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From: otw185 <otw185 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:57:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [s-cars] Euro Lights question



Looking to be illuminated on a lighting issue:

On my '92, I've upgraded awhile back to new OEM Euro Hella units (H1 Headlight, 
H1 Hibeam and H3 fog), which are a plug 'n' play replacement to the DOTs.   I'm 
not running any particularly high watt bulbs, Osram, Philips -- everything is 
good quality stuff I got from PG Performance (always excellent to deal with) and 
I've eliminated that the bulbs are the problem.  In each of the last two cold 
seasons, I've had a couple, rare, instances where the following occurs 
simultaneously while they're on in the lowbeam position, independent of whether 
I've got the front fogs on or not.  Now, I've got the problem continuously: 

1) The lowbeam on the driver's side is very dim - just enough to see it's on but 
not emitting any useful light.  The passenger's side is normal.

2) Even though the switch is in the lowbeam spot, both sides' hibeam bulbs are 
on anyway, but also just barely emitting light. 

3) Inside the car, the blue highbeam indicator is also very faintly on, but the 
message center is not indicating a light is out.

Now, when I switch to highbeam mode, the message center immediately chimes a 
light is out, and the driver's side unit goes completely dark, but the 
passenger's side has a healthy highbeam.  

I think it's a short since in the past I was able to give the driver's unit a 
soft pound with the base of my hand and the problem was corrected.  I don't see 
any obvious wiring issue inside the driver unit and made sure everything appears 
to be connected correctly.  Anyone have a guess what's up before I take it 
apart?  

Cheers,

Scott in OH 

 

 

 

        
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