Funkin headlight !

[exocet]

Can anyone help with the following prob?

For quite a while, the nearside dipped headlight on my cerb goes out whilst driving. The car used to have 80/100w bulbs, but I recently changed them for 55/55w jobbies. I thought the problem might be because of having too high a wattage bulb, but it's still happening. I have had a look at the dim/dip switchinhg unit in the boot, and there is little bit of 'browness' on one of the connections, could it be this that is playing up???

Any thoughts/similar experiences welcome.

Jo

[madasahatter]

I have a very similar car to yourself, and I had some problems with lights recently.

I guess the higher wattage headlights are burning out the useless connectors in the boot - but there are two boxes that are used for the headlights control. One is the dim/dip box as you describe - this is the one that got very burnt out on mine. There is another, which I think Joolz mentioned houses the Resistor which does ...something.

The fix is to bypass the connector on BOTH of these boxes, and solder the wires to the circuit board directly.

I get-me-home might be to stuff the connectors with silver foil - but be careful not to short anything out!!

Hope this helps

[exocet]

Blimey, your car is similar!!

Thanks for the info, but I have NO experience in soldering, so may get someone else to do it for me!!

Thanks,

Jo

[olly]

This is exactly what happened to our car about a year ago - and although the finger was never pointed, I'm SURE it was because of runing the 80/100W Bulbs (well, thats why I assume our lights are quite bright - I should really check !). We got a new Box & new light wiring loom out of Warranty Holdings to fix it - but the temp fix which Walldonway did to keep us going (which worked fine) was just to cut the wire slightly shorter (the one thats brown/burnt) fit a new connector & clean up the connection on the black box.... I have no idea how much a new box will be, but a new connector will be pence rather than £*** from a dealer/factory for a new box!

[david beer]

The Philips Vision Plus will give as much light output as 80w joobies and still draw 55w so not to overload any wiring. If you care to try some let me know.
David