[urq] High beam indicator stuck on, high beam stalk has no effect- what did I break?
Steve Mills
s.b.mills at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 10:31:14 PDT 2012
I had Susquehanna Motorsports build a relayed harness to properly power the
euro H1/H4 headlights on my 85 UrQ. Unfortunately the harness had some
wiring issues- the high beams would latch on and not shut off unless I
turned the headlights off completely.
I wasn't happy with how I had the harness powered and routed, so after
using it on the drive up and back from Winter Driving school I've pulled
the harness out of the car and only have the low beams connected. Despite
putting the wiring back to stock, the high beam indicator is on all the
time and pulling on the high/low beam stalk has no effect. I can't really
tell whether the highs are really on or not because they're not connected,
but the high beam indicator certainly thinks they are.
Did I fry the stalk, or is the problem potentially somewhere else? I
checked the wiring diagram in the Bentley and there doesn't appear to be a
relay or anything else involved in switching between high and low. All I
see is power from the switch to the stalk, and then from the stalk to the
headlights- I was expecting the stalk to trigger a relay somewhere, but
there's no evidence of it I can see in the wiring diagram. Am I missing
something? Any hints would be useful- I've created some adapter harnesses
so I can wire in the high beams, but I don't want to wire in the highs if
I'm just going to blind oncoming traffic.
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