So, the headlights. A pain in the arse in case of my MGM. After a series of tests, I am quite sure that the situation looks like this at the moment:
-> the autolamp system works ok, turning on and off the position lights, cluster lighting and low beams whenever necessary;
-> the switch... probably it works well, too, at least for the positions;
-> switching on high beams screws everything: if the car is on autolamp, but the headlight switch is set to off position, there is a weird noise coming out of one of the relays under the dash and ALL lights go out; they will come back after a while, but as long as the high beams are on, the situation will persist;
To ensure I have some lights in any situation, the electrician has made an additional circuit that turns the low beams on as soon as the ignition is on; if this is plugged in, then turning the high beams on results in an intermittent operation: they switch on and off from time to time.
Any obvious suspects? My personal judgment says that maybe the high beam switch is to blame, but... is there any thermal circuit breaker in the headlight system, or something similar?
Help greatly appreciated.
-> the autolamp system works ok, turning on and off the position lights, cluster lighting and low beams whenever necessary;
-> the switch... probably it works well, too, at least for the positions;
-> switching on high beams screws everything: if the car is on autolamp, but the headlight switch is set to off position, there is a weird noise coming out of one of the relays under the dash and ALL lights go out; they will come back after a while, but as long as the high beams are on, the situation will persist;
To ensure I have some lights in any situation, the electrician has made an additional circuit that turns the low beams on as soon as the ignition is on; if this is plugged in, then turning the high beams on results in an intermittent operation: they switch on and off from time to time.
Any obvious suspects? My personal judgment says that maybe the high beam switch is to blame, but... is there any thermal circuit breaker in the headlight system, or something similar?
Help greatly appreciated.
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