[urq] High beam indicator stuck on, high beam stalk has no effect- what did I break?

[Stephen Kraus]

Sounds like the relay is going bad or you have too much current going
through it for the H1/H4 Headlights.

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Steve Mills <s.b.mills at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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