Disco 2 D2 Pre-facelift - Scary dim dipped beams - possibly a relay?

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Tango91

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Howdy,

Among the many and varied problems with my stupid, stupid money pit, the dipped beams on my pre-facelift D2 are scarily dim and orangey.

The bulbs are new, decent quality Philips H4 ones, and the high beams are pretty darn good and very very white in comparison.

I saw a rather amusing Youtube short the other day with a nice man of northern persuasion who had a similar problem with an old defender, and his fix involved replacing the dim/dip relay.

Is this applicable/ is there an equivalent on the D2? Before I fire the parts cannon, I've searched but can't find anything helpful that isn't about various lights not working at all.

Cheers!
 
Tango91 said:
his fix involved replacing the dim/dip relay.

Is this applicable/ is there an equivalent on the D2? Before I fire the parts cannon
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Hi, no such thing on a D2, the headlights are working with positive feed from the fuses directly through the switch, nothing else involved so it can be a voltage drop due to a bad contact on the feed path cos if it was about earth the high beams should have been affected too as they share the same earth with dipped beam while the left and right lamps have different earth points.... I'd rule out the switch first
 
Thanks, that'll be why i couldn't find any relays online ;) I'll bust out the multimeter then and see what I'm getting at the connectors
 
Tango91 said:
Howdy,

Among the many and varied problems with my stupid, stupid money pit, the dipped beams on my pre-facelift D2 are scarily dim and orangey.

The bulbs are new, decent quality Philips H4 ones, and the high beams are pretty darn good and very very white in comparison.

I saw a rather amusing Youtube short the other day with a nice man of northern persuasion who had a similar problem with an old defender, and his fix involved replacing the dim/dip relay.

Is this applicable/ is there an equivalent on the D2? Before I fire the parts cannon, I've searched but can't find anything helpful that isn't about various lights not working at all.

Cheers!
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So what’s an old Defender dim-dip system got to do with your D2 issue?
Hopefully the new bulbs you have fitted are not faulty.
So if as you say “high beams” are good then the earth to each bulb is also good.
The voltage to the bulbs dip element may be iffy so check the dip feed voltage at the head lamp connectors first , somewhere there’s a connector joining both feeds to the single feed from the lighting switch where you should have full 12v at leased in & out.
 
Tango91 said:
It's the same earth for the high and low beams, isn't it? Mine's got H4 bulbs with the 3 pin plugs
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My Nemo has H4's, but the dim was back feeding through the high beam circuit, causing it to run a very dim yellow. Found it was a poor connection on the h4 plug connector, which was obvious by the smell or overheating plastic on the bulb connector.

Just chucking it into the pot....
 
When I first got this grey d2 the facelift headlights were awful and the none facelift were far superior, I had put 'bright white' bulbs in my other one so I put them in this one and it was worse like the white light just bounced of the road but I discovered that both sides were pointing way left, I spent ages realigning them and put yellow bulbs back in and jobs a guden :D
Doesn't help you much though :rolleyes:
 
Funny enough, my issue came as I upgraded my standard bulbs for Nightbreakers. Fettled the rear connector and it worked properly.
 
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