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

[Steve Mills]

That's my thinking also- I expected there to be a headlight relay in the
stock wiring, but Bentley shows nothing, so my guess was that I fried the
stalk. Fortunately, I have a few spares so I'll try swapping that out and
see if that fixes it.

Steve

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Mike Sylvester <mike at urq20v.com> wrote:

> Relays can get stuck in the closed position.
> This is not necessarily due to too much current.
> It is caused by switching an inductive DC load.
> When the contact opens there is arch that will damage the contact area
> and eventually weld them together.
>
> Regardless, it sounds like he has already removed the relayed harness.
> It sounds like his stalk has lost the ability to latch in the low beam
> position.
>
> Mike
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [urq] High beam indicator stuck on, high beam stalk has no
> > effect- what did I break?
> > From: Stephen Kraus <ub3ratl4sf00 at gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, June 25, 2012 1:35 pm
> > To: Steve Mills <s.b.mills at gmail.com>
> > Cc: urq at audifans.com
> >
> >
> > 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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