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[c00mes30]

Hi guys Getting my car ready for MOT and had all my lights working including spots but now nothing at all. I checked the switch and it has not burnt out. There seems to be no power to the switch. Have put a permanent live to it and my lights come on but if I flip to full beam they go off. No fuses have blown? Could it be the 12v relay under the dash? It's a 94 sprite 1275

[lrostoke]

its it all round front and back ??

[c00mes30]

Yes all lights

[lrostoke]

I'd check the connections on the starter solenoid are clean and tight..all the cars positive feeds come from there.

 

Also check earth connections

 

Could be the extra load of highbeam is finding the weakest spot in the wiring and killing the connection.

Edited by lrostoke, 10 August 2016 - 01:56 PM.

[c00mes30]

OK so I did that I now have hi beams but they still only work if I put another permanent live to the switch

[c00mes30]

However they are not very bright?

[lrostoke]

Have you tried byepassing the switch, and putting a known good 12v supply direct to the sidelights , then main lights.

 

Side lights should be independent of the main lights so sounds like a bad feed to the switch.

 

Does the switch have Brown , Red and Blue wires ??

 

I'd connect a 12v to the red and see if that gives sidelights.

 

I missed the bit were there is no power to the switch, thats the brown wire..It's non fused direct off the battery , but should be that all the browns take a feed off the battery connection on the solenoid

Edited by lrostoke, 10 August 2016 - 02:50 PM.

[c00mes30]

Yes the switch has red blue brown. For the moment I have found another permanent live and slipped into the live on the back of the connector and pushed the switch into it and I have lights so it looks like somewhere there is a break in my live to the switch

[c00mes30]

Yes the switch has red blue brown. For the moment I have found another permanent live and slipped into the live on the back of the connector and pushed the switch into it and I have lights so it looks like somewhere there is a break in my live to the switch