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16-07-2011, 02:31 PM | #1 | ||
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Telstar has a strange problem. Headlight bulb works on high beam, does not work on low beam. Before anybody says "blown low beam", the bulb is a single filament and works for both high and low beam. The other side works fine. no fuses blown, I have not found out yet if there 2 relays/fuses for the individual low beam circuits but I do not think so.
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16-07-2011, 02:36 PM | #2 | ||
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so you have tested the globe?
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16-07-2011, 02:47 PM | #3 | ||
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The globe serves both low and high beam with a single filament. Works on high beam but not on low beam. Even the harness and plug have only 2 wires/connections. The connector has power on high beam but not on low beam. There are no blown fuses.
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16-07-2011, 06:00 PM | #4 | ||
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Auto electrician at Uralla is an idiot. What he told the previous owners was a load! Trial and error showed me that the outer projectors are the low beam and the inboard lights are high beam. He missed the blown outer bulb. All fixed now.
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16-07-2011, 06:43 PM | #5 | ||
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Was going to ask you how you think a single filament can work as both high and low beam as it just isnt possible.
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16-07-2011, 07:30 PM | #6 | |||
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Sory wrong BMW do it. My mothers BMW (twin Head lamps) will drop the Hi beam lamp to Low if the (seperate) Lo beam has failed. To still give you a Lo beam on both sides of the car, then switch it back to Hi beam if you turn on your Hi beams.
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16-07-2011, 10:35 PM | #7 | ||
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Thanks bundy, saved me the effort. Was not my thinking, auto electrician at Uralla told the people I bought the car off that story. I have not previously owned a series 2 AX TX5 so did not know until I worked it out. The projector low beam headlights threw me as well. I was thinking they were high beam. A workshop repair manual would be good but they are as rare as rocking horse crap or hens teeth.
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16-07-2011, 11:23 PM | #8 | |||
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Or Bi-Xenon lights, has a solenoid to drop the shield for highbeam, goes back up for low beam from a single HID globe on left/right side of the car. Those are different stories, but it is possible |
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