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TeddyR

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O/s headlight was acting up today (H reg 90):

1. Dipped - very dim or non-existent (some continuous illumination of front o/s winkers).
2. Full-beam - brought on the front o/s winkers (continuously and dimly) and dimmed the front o/s side light.

Corrected itself after a bit and hasn't recurred. What the heck was that all about then? :confused:

A partial short? Muck and/or moisture? Or is there a known issue?

I should add that this vehicle is scheduled for a new dim/dip relay, as that is most definitely on the blink. Headlights come on after about 90 secs.
 
when my lights were going off and generally not working properly , ithought it wasa bad earth turned out it was a dodgy contact on the indicator/main beam stalk gew one sorted it
 
if yer h/lights where bringing on yer indcators that would point to a bad earth rather than yer switch. the ind. come on because yer H/Ls are eathing through them and as you are now putting two bulbs in series in yer H/L circuit both will be dimmer. i don't think a switch would cause that
 
big bump, dodgy earth bolt just waiting to play up again, i 've got a dodgey earth on teh back of me car that play silly ever second week or so. quick thump and thats it fer another two weeks. one day i'll look at it closer.................


................. second thought nah i wont unless it gives up completly
 
It's an earthing problem as HRH Lord Slob says.

A lot of the trouble is aluminium.
Clean aluminium is a good conductor, but ally oxide is a strong di-electric, meaning an insulator, so if you are earthing to ally you can expect it to fail regularly.

Wipe Vaseline onto everything you connect to ally, and that will help.

CharlesY
 
It was indeed an earth problem, as you both pointed out.
Went along to get the headlight beams aligned today and whilst there, picked the engineer's brains a bit. He found the dodgy earth and I went home and fixed it.

Specifically, it was a bit of bodged earth wire with a filthy and delapidated scotch lock half way along, joining two elderly stubs of earth wire. Changed it for one new bit.

Thanks one and all! :)
 
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