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1994lhs
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Feb 22, 2012, 5:20 PM

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About year ago my head lights would work just fine. Id drive and they would go out, and id pull over turn off engine and turn back on and they be back.

Well they finally stopped coming on, just my running lights come on and my amber turn signal lights are on when i turn the switch to on. No head light or fog lights come on. Only way i can drive is hold back my hi beam lever to have light at night. Even the Hi beam level wont stay on, i pull that back, you hear the click and it wont stay. I had to readjust the level of the headlights so their on the road and not ppls eyes.

Today I decided to give another stab at it and replaced the Headlamp delay/relay in the fuse box. and to no surprise nothing but a $11 waste.

My next move is to just buy a HID kit and hard wire it all to a switch in my dash if i cant fidn whats bad.

Any Ideas


Tom Greenleaf
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Feb 22, 2012, 6:06 PM

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A maybe is the lights share one common ground that's bad. If you could catch this when they don't work you could check that clearly but if they are working no testing is going to help much,

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1994lhs
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Feb 22, 2012, 6:10 PM

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They dont come on at all now. Just the Daytime running lights on at all times and my amber turning lights come on.

I was thnking like stated of getting HID kit install that with a bypass relay harness to a switch under my dash


Hammer Time
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Feb 22, 2012, 6:10 PM

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Are we working on a Maserati or a Geo?










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1994lhs
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Feb 22, 2012, 6:12 PM

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Figured my username would of given it away.

1994 chrysler lhs


Hammer Time
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Feb 22, 2012, 6:21 PM

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Why would you think that? Don't expect us to play guessing games. We have people with mustang user names asking about Chevy pickups and all other kinds of unrelated user names.

You could have a bad dimmer switch but it needs to be troubleshooted with a wiring diagram to be sure.










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nickwarner
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Feb 22, 2012, 10:45 PM

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When you changed the relay, I'm guessing you didn't test it beforehand to see if it was functioning or to see if it had power to it or the control side was receiving power and ground when energized. These simple tests will narrow down rather quickly what the fault is and is a hell of a lot cheaper to buy than an HID kit. Quite frankly, if you don't know how to do such simple tests you aren't likely up to the task of properly installing an HID kit either. We can talk you through the tests to isolate the issue if you would like, and the tools required are inexpensive.




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