Hi John, Same thing happened to me. I bought my van in Portland and was driving it back home to Sac at night and all of a sudden - no lights! This was on I-5 in the middle of nowhere - about by Lake Shasta - hilly & curvy & cold. Finally figured out the "stalk trick" and followed a semi into Redding. It was spooky. I needed a new ignition switch. Werner On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:15:23 -0600, John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote: > New experience. Got in the van last night, turned on the headlights. >Nothing! Dash lights OK, driving lights OK, brake lights OK. No head >lights. No high beams, no low beams. BUT - if I hold the >turn-signal/bright/dimm stalk in the 'back" position - i.e - towards the >driver. ALL the headlights come on, but immediately go off when released. > >This is a new event to me. I checked the big connector at the right of >the instrument cluster and it seems tight. Any one experienced this >before? Have any ideas where to start looking for the trouble? > >Thanks, > >John > >-- >John Rodgers >Clayartist and Moldmaker >88'GL VW Bus Driver >Chelsea, AL >Http://www.moldhaus.com |
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