No lights!
No lights!
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GV

Original Poster:

2,366 posts

253 months

Saturday 9th December 2006
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Had a strange occurance today, headlights popped up but with no beam. After several flicks of the switch the lights came on after much pod movement! Anyway, the pods pop up with no lights - not sure where to start looking...

wedg1e

27,038 posts

294 months

Saturday 9th December 2006
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Column switch, blown fuse(s), bad earth....

avalon

7 posts

280 months

Saturday 9th December 2006
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My wedge did this,cleaning the fuses and the fuse holder contacts should do the trick.
Good luck.

Mark ex wedge driver now defected to a 3000M.

GV

Original Poster:

2,366 posts

253 months

Sunday 10th December 2006
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wedg1e said:
Column switch, blown fuse(s), bad earth....


Where can the earth connection usually be found?

rev-erend

21,619 posts

313 months

Sunday 10th December 2006
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Common problem - get some electrical contact spray - from someone like RS .. spray on the switch and turn it on / off a few times..

Mine does it sometimes too..

wedg1e

27,038 posts

294 months

Sunday 10th December 2006
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GV said:
wedg1e said:
Column switch, blown fuse(s), bad earth....


Where can the earth connection usually be found?


Most of the earths for electrics at the front of the car are gathered together at a common point at front left of the engine bay (on my car at any rate!) - there's a stud welded to the suspension tower.
Remove nut, clean all ring terminals and reinstall. Bit of anti-corrosion substance would be a good plan too.
However it's unlikely that both headlamps would have bad earths here at the same time while other equipment still works from the same earth point.
Also unlikely is both fuses blowing at the same time, or both multiplugs down in the nose going intermittent... which points to a common fault which would usually be the main lights switch or the dip/main stalk.
The pods come up with a feed from the main switch as I recall, but that's not to rule this switch out as a possibility. More likely is a dodgy connection (arced contact) or melted housing at the column stalk.

BIG DUNC

1,925 posts

252 months

Sunday 10th December 2006
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Mine did this occasionaly. Full beam always worked, but dip beam became intermitent.
A spray of electical cleaner under the column aimed at the end of the dip / main stalk did the trick.

GV

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2,366 posts

253 months

Monday 11th December 2006
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Roger so far guys - contact cleaner spray and a clean up of the earth point on the chassis is in order.

Just disovered the drivers side rear light is also non-op!