Headlights Not working
Headlights Not working
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Zooks

Original Poster:

282 posts

256 months

Monday 3rd August 2020
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Any auto electricians frequent here?

I could do with some help with my Nissan Primastar van lights as I have no full beam or headlight flashers but main beam and side lights work fine.

Its clear the electrics have been buggered about with at some point before my ownership as I have already found a wiper relay plugged into the wrong position.
I have checked the stalk as I was told they are a weak spot but it bells through fine and I have 12v to and from it. My next step is to check the relays but I'm struggling to find any headlight relays on the van?

Worryingly as I was having a poke about this little bugger fell out of somewhere.



This is the relay panel under the dash.


When I put a link across the white terminal block I got full beam and dash high beam light on (regardless of switch position) so its not bulbs or fuses either.
To a auto electric idiot like myself it seems that the headlight relays are missing but surely I would have no lights at all then?

I hate electrics

E-bmw

13,531 posts

182 months

Monday 3rd August 2020
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Sounds like it could be separate circuits/relays for dip/high beam, drop a relay in & try it.

Zooks

Original Poster:

282 posts

256 months

Monday 3rd August 2020
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Ordered a couple now. I don't know where the others had gone. I suspect failed and some sort of bodge done?

GreenV8S

31,025 posts

314 months

Monday 3rd August 2020
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Maybe somebody has replaced the relay with a hotwire to a different circuit to get a DIY daylight running light, or something like that.