Just thought id say that after about 3 months of going mad with my lights, they are now sorted thanks to the help of Darkside!! cheers buddy! :dance:

Good man, there's some decent folk on this site :D

there certainly are!!!

congrats :D

glad to hear it mate

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Nice one, dont forget to detail the fix in case others have the same problem.

All that anger over headlights...http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=121005

 

.....still hate it and want rid of it? LOL

Edited January 18, 200917 yr by FunkySi

The fix was more of a by pass....

 

Looing at the loom in the engine bay the previous owner had had a fetish for cutting wires left right and centre.....

 

So the fix............ run a new cable from the passenger side head light (known good light and wiring) to the drivers side head light...... which in turn sorted out the main beam.. seams to be a fault witht he wiring on the drivers side, maybe a bad earth... but all bypassed and working fine.....

 

not the ideal fix but it now works and can be driven safely at night.....

 

And no probs but... was a pleaseure to fix something that wasnt cosmetic of mechanical for a change....... ;)

 

Cheerz

 

Neil

no not angry anymore! think i'll keep it ;)

Nice to see you got it sorted. Always better when someone is on hand to help, rather than trying to describe what to do via here, especially something like this.

Now you can enjoy your Zed at night :cool:

The fix was more of a by pass....

 

Looing at the loom in the engine bay the previous owner had had a fetish for cutting wires left right and centre.....

 

So the fix............ run a new cable from the passenger side head light (known good light and wiring) to the drivers side head light...... which in turn sorted out the main beam.. seams to be a fault witht he wiring on the drivers side, maybe a bad earth... but all bypassed and working fine.....

 

not the ideal fix but it now works and can be driven safely at night.....

 

And no probs but... was a pleaseure to fix something that wasnt cosmetic of mechanical for a change....... ;)

 

Cheerz

 

Neil

 

So you now have both lights running off the same relay ? Or are you talking about the earth wire ?

Both earth and power... so yes off the same relay, we tried a different relay and it made no difference, in fact i think we tried 2 different relays, known good relays...

 

The wiring in the engin bay is a complete mess, ideally a new loom is required, but run a new cable as a temp measure to get them working.

 

Neil

Doubling the current through that relay may cause problems - beware ! Not saying it will catch fire, but it may burn out the contacts and both headlights will go out at the same time - scary on a country road .....

Could you not just use the earth and remove the power?

That might be an idea... well i'll point Nick in the directon of this.. he saw what was done so should be able to take the power out and reconecct the origonal power, i did say it was a temp measure and really he needed a new loom....