Definately check your earth points for the headlights. Mine used to do
exactly the same thing, making a good clean solid earth fixed it.
Wardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tuting, Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:30 AM
Subject: RE: Headlight trrouble here too (long n pointless)
> OK since the subject is on the line I might as well give my headlight
> problems too.
>
> One night after cruising around with some mates I dropped one of them
> home, just after I was driving down the road and flicked on the high
> beams, imediately the car stalled all instruments and lights went out
> and I was left rolling around the road in the dark. I stopped the car,
> popped the bonnet and couldn't see anything that was loose with the
> lights or wiring. I jumped back into the car turned the ignition off and
> then tried to turn it over and it went straight away, now I was thinking
> this is soooo weird but kept driving home and then it happened again so
> while I was rolling I turned the ignition off and turned it on again,
> and off we went. Since then it has only happened once and now seems
> fine.
> I'm thinking its probably a crappy switch in the steering column
> blinker/high beam toggle, anyone heard of this before or can diagnose it
> ?
>
> Thanks,
> Anthony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul W. J. Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 November 2000 23:55
> To: OZDAT Mailing list
> Subject: Headlight trrouble here too
>
>
> I have a nasty short in my 200B headlights. Even connecting the positive
> headlight wire to the battery makes the relay switch on (without the
> headlights switched on) and suck enormous amounts of battery power,
> obviously a short. But what is shorting if the relay is coming on
> without
> switching the headlights on? Could it be a "double short"?
>
>
>
>
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