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bigagoinb
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Aug 31, 2009, 8:13 PM
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Lights, Tooter mixup!!!
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last night while driving home i turnd on my cars lights but when i turned the brights on the tooter suddenly tooted. then when i presed the tooter the tooter tooted and the lights switched to dim. I did this for a while finding it funny but when i got home i turned the lights of turnd the key to off and the lights came back on!!! then i turnd the car back on and the lights whent of. finnely i turnd the car of (lights came back on) turned the steering and the lights whent of... Its as if everything is just mixed up. how can I fix it? I drive a 1978 beetle. please help.
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DanD
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Sep 1, 2009, 12:12 AM
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Re: Lights, Tooter mixup!!!
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You’re going to have to open up the steering column and look for chaffed wires. The horn and the headlight beam select are grounding switches. The horn switch when pressed completes the circuit to ground for the horn to sound. The headlight select switch when actuated grounds the headlight beam select relay. Somewhere inside the column these two circuits are touching intermittently and touching the metal inside the column.
The wires that you’ll be dealing with are brown with a white stripe and solid brown for the beam select. For the horn there is a solid brown and a dark blue wire; any combination of these wires touching each other or the metal inside the column will cause this.
You’ll also likely have to pull the steering wheel to gain access to some of the switches and wiring harness; if so that’ll mean you’ll need some form of puller, too get the wheel off.
Dan.
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