Have a look at the following work of art, now if your head lights are working properly, do they look like the top or bottom configuration?

 

 

Also, with the help of some more works of MS paint art.

 

If i wire my head lights up like this

 

 

i get the result of the top configuration.

 

My high beam works fine and both headlights light up.

 

Someone mentioned it was a earth problem, well thought id try some experimenting today with some cabling, this is what i did.

 

first the problem

 

when i use the original live on the drivers side to the bulb plus the original earth on the drivers side, i get a very dim main beam bulb with both high beam lights lit dimly.

 

However.

 

if i run a wire from the live on the passenger side (working headlight) to the bulb its self on the drivers side (dimly lit headlight), then earth it to its original connector on the drivers side. i get a fully lit main beam on both, yet no dimly lit high beam lights. (i do get high beam on both, when i use the indicator stork)

 

if i use the original live to the drivers side bulb, and earth it on the passenger side, i get the same as above.

 

This leads me to believe that the live to my drivers side is some what buggered somewhere.

 

So the question again, in the first work of art, what is the correct lighting once you have turned your head lights on fully for normal night driving conditions?

The very first pic buddy, that is normal dipped lights. (the outer light is dipped beam, the one's with the projector)

 

HTH

 

Al.

aaahhhha, should of looked at your sig :D, well in that case then, looks like my dodgy wiring job is making the head lights work properly lol.

 

so looks like i have a faulty live feed to the drivers side head light.

 

Thanks matey, now just gotta track down the fault. but least i have a temporary fix for now.

On mine, the side lights are in the fog lights, the outer round lights in the headlight unit are the normal dipped beam, they turn off when I use full beam, that's the big light in the unit.

Which poses a question, any idea how to make the dipped beam light up the road?

 

Kev

On mine, the side lights are in the fog lights, the outer round lights in the headlight unit are the normal dipped beam, they turn off when I use full beam, that's the big light in the unit.

Which poses a question, any idea how to make the dipped beam light up the road?

 

Kev

 

Thats how it should be :)

 

To get the dipped beam to stay on with the high beam is very simple

 

Get a small peice of wire. Then take the connetor off the back of your bulb. Then place the wire down in the connetor on the earth side, then just pop it back onto the bulb

 

Then just earth the wire then straight to the body of the car.

 

Hope this helps

0oh, nice one

Cheers Car.Mad