Tim and Jordan If this was a 1970 ford van I would agree about it being the main switch but on a vanagon it is more likely to be the relay, the high low beam switch or perhaps a bad connection that gets hot somwhere. The switch in the dash is low current? Am I right about this one david? gary Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:09:14 EDT From: JordanVw@AOL.COM Subject: Re: headlight question In a message dated 6/1/02 12:01:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, bmegas@ISLAND.NET writes:
> We bought an 86 Westy last October and of couse it is great. A few months > ago while driving home at night with the bright headlights on for a long > time, all of a sudden the bright lights turned themselves off. Flicked the > high beam/low beam lever and the low beams came on. Flicking the lever again > to get the high beams back on produced no high beams and no blue high beam > indicator light. However, a few minutes later, everything returned to > normal. This happened on three different occassions, and since then I just > haven't really been out much at night long enough to see if the problem > remains. When I looked at the wiring diagram, I got hopelessly confused. > Anybody had the same problem? > > bad headlight switch ive got spares for $15
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