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• right side headlight wont power up ..new relay kit 2 mths ago ...
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Sun, 27 May 2007 11:39:57 -0700
  OK So I got list vendor relay kit a few mths ago worked fine until today the right side headlight high/low beam no...
• Re: headlight advice/f AKA City Lights
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 1 Apr 2001 11:32:24 +1200
  ...Might as well have high beam on, as they are directed forward, not down, and have no upper beam cutoff. I give these bright...
• love my new lights!
  Historical mailing list - Caston/Payne
  Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:46:41 -0400
  ...When it all gets wired up I'll have 460 watts on high beam! Ya HOOOO! Moral of the story: upgrade and see the...
• Re: Bright, head light problem...
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 20 Nov 2002 00:52:11 -0500
  ...Okay after all else you have done, now go and check the fuse for the passenger side high beam. It's probably blown. If...
• Re: Bosch and Hella H4 Lights - Group Purchace (All Model Years)
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:12:24 +0100
  ...I have seen on the US web site of Mercedes, that the US spec E-class sedan uses parking lights in the high beams...
• Re: SA grills available again
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:48:26 EST
  ...the road by yourself? Huh? Are high beams just for looks? If you're alone on the highway, isn't that still "driving"?---so...
• Re: Testing Vanagon Headlight Switch
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:20:28 -0400
  ...That switch is a toggle, feeding either one or the other of the low or high beams through S3-4 or S5-6. The...
• Re: Westy 3-Way Fridge Questions/LEDs
  Historical mailing list - Dann-o
  Tue, 29 Nov 1994 10:13:03 -0600 (CST)
  ...my friends 80 vanagon has a green led for the high beam indicator, its really distracting, as you are constantly checking the blinker stalk...
• Right Brain/Left Brain
  Historical mailing list - Brian T.
  Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:50:06 -0800
  I got 100% now my red high beam light should be blue shouldn't it... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast...
• Re: Little blue lights
  Historical mailing list - Helmut Zeidler
  Fri, 11 Dec 1998 09:33:52 +0100
  ...Assemble your own kit with Hella Xenon beams (Universal Coach Moutings), high voltage generator for 12 Volts and automatic range adjustment. This will fit...
• Re: 2nd ignition switch in 2 months???
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:16:22 -0800
  ...i know the connections are > good.. > the high beams come on when i pull the high beams switch... so does the > blower and windshield...
• Re: Hella H4s and relays
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:31:17 -0700
  ...a relay? The H4 bulbs are 55/60 watts > (low beam/high beam). > > My fear is they will damage the light switch. I don...
• Re: headlight emergency!
  Historical mailing list - Caston/Payne
  Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:32:16 -0400
  ...I lost dash lights & high beams. I replaced: highbeam selector switch on the column, turn signal stalk and components on the column, ignition switch...
• Re: our new 87 Vanagon GL
  Historical mailing list - Patrick & Stephanie Harris
  Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:34:40 -0700
  ...the outer/bigger ones are the low beams. the inner/smaller >ones are the high beams. try it and see. on high beams, both...
• Re: dim "High beam" indicator light
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:05:02 +0100
  "Alan J. Flint" wrote: > I was planning to replace the bulb, I believe it's a LED, not a bulb. I am not 100...
• Re: Blue LED's?
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 3 Aug 1996 01:59:14 -0400
  > > Yep, 80's VW products had something Blue that looked like an LED > for high-beams. I always intended to get a 'spare' and...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:20:58 EST
  ...are just mounted so high. > Not only that, the pattern they put out is very much a spot beam, very > concentrated in one area...
• Re: Hi beams
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:13:36 -0400
  ...One of the minor issues with the new ride is that the high beams aren't working. Is this likely to be a problem...
• Fuse Size for Headlights
  Historical mailing list - Anthony L. Mourkas
  Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:12:30 -0500
  ...a bank of four relays that will trigger the low beams, high beams, auxiliary driving lights, and fog lights. Each individual light circuit will...
• Re: Hella E-Codes vs. Vision Plus?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:17:39 -0800
  ...High beam is 6000K (pure white) >> > >> > >> > I believe the closest to pure white is either 4300k and 5000k (the >> ones >> I'm >> > using). 6000k...
• Re: headlights (all) - poof! - continued...
  Historical mailing list - Grungy
  Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:25:57 -0500
  ...They both >> click when I pull on the high-beam lever. That says to me that they >> are getting power from the high-beam...
• Re: Square Headlights
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Sun, 17 May 1998 15:35:28 -0700
  > >The square High Beam Assemblies (H3 Bulb Style) from any 82-88 Scirocco are >the SAME as what's installed on 86-91 Vanagons...
• Re: High Beam Indicator
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:53:57 +1200
  ...Pull and >wiggle gently and it should pull out of the socket. > A high-intensity LED costs very little and ought to do the...
• 88 Inst. Cluster in 85
  Historical mailing list - Michael Claire
  Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:05:52 -0800
  ...2) the highbeam indicator blue lamp is activated on low rather than high beam. Has any one got any ideas about how to fix...
• Re: Odd headlights - some on some off
  Historical mailing list - Bill MacLachlan
  Fri, 18 May 2012 20:49:13 -0700
  ...There are actually 4 fuses for the headlights, high and low > beam, each side. > > Dennis > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry...
• Re: Headlight upgrades
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 16 Jan 2016 22:35:06 -0500
  ...As for most of those xenon bulb kits they are xenon low beam with a halogen lamp for the high beam. ??? For the LED...
• Re: Pzwo lower grille foglights NLA
  Historical mailing list - Doug F
  Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:07:22 -0800
  ...her high > >>>beams > >>>at the victim to prove to the victim he or she doesn't have his or > >>>her high > >>>beams on-- this...
• Re: Don't yell at me but I tried led H4
  Historical mailing list - Poppie Jagersand
  Mon, 19 Jun 2017 23:39:55 +0000
  ...My power source only goes up to 15.5V, at that setting the current was 1.10A.That was for high beam, low beam...
• Re: headlights (all) - poof! - continued...
  Historical mailing list - Grungy
  Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:54:03 -0500
  ...They both click when I pull on the high-beam lever. That says to me that they are getting power from the high-beam...
• Re: Headlights
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:37:06 -0700
  ...The relationship > between the COB center of beam between high and low is a compromise on > installations where the mounting center of the lens...
• Re: So... what is the answer for these poor lights?
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:39:39 -0700
  ...Our high beams are ok! But, even our high beams don't get flashed by people. Living on the Oregon Coast, the blackness + wetness...
• Highbeams kill Radio
  Historical mailing list - Alan Pickersgill
  Thu, 30 May 2002 19:24:54 -0400
  ...While driving with lights on, listening to radio, put on high beams - radio dies for a second or more,then comes back on. Anyone...
• Re: fog lights
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:02:34 -0500
  I tapped my solenoid into my low-beam headlamp wire so that they shut off with the high-beams and shut off when ignition...
• High-beam Indicator Light Fix
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:55:49 -0400
  ...www.frydaye-engineering.com/vanagon/kewlfixes/highbeamlight Ric 87 Westfalia with new high beam indicator light (DISCLAIMER - this is a Frydaye Follies post - do...
• Projektzwo Fog light question
  Historical mailing list - dave bowers
  Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:05:15 -0700
  ...a fog light switch each time I switch between low beams and high beams. I suspect they are not supposed to be on, when...
• FW: Automotive (Vanagon!) Lighting Query
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Gies
  Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:00:36 -0600
  ...Same low beam performance as in (2), stronger high beams. If you do this, be careful -- some of the guys bringing in the SOuth...
• Re: High beam dash bulb
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Fri, 1 May 2015 06:57:46 -0700
  ...I could hardly see my high beam indicator, replacing the bulb was all that was required to make it bright and visible again, even...
• Re: No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 1 Oct 2009 22:06:03 -0400
  ...A friend once thought about designing a rig with an aiming CO2 laser -- invisible beam and he thought the lamp reflector would focus enough...
• Hey, it's awful dark out there tonight....
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:02:49 -0400
  ...Trying the high beams lit up the road for a moment, but as soon as I release the lever the highbeams die out again...
• Re: lister needs help on the road - headlight gremlin in 86 westy
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:12:57 -0700
  ...It is normal for the high beam switch to make the lights come on no matter what, as long as you hold it in...
• Re: A light mystery
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 30 May 2011 17:26:21 -0500
  ...I noticed on Saturday that the driver side low beam was out (all 4 high beam lights are fine) so I went to buy...
• Re: Euro-spec headlights tech (kinda long)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:58:00 -0600
  ...But the headlights themselves would have a "reversed" beam pattern. In drive-on-the-right countries (including the US and continental Europe), the high...
• Re: Headlight Failure-Check the ground connection!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:06:20 -0400
  ...Now if I switch to high > beams the > first problem is the high beam indicator does not light up, it did > yesterday and only...
• RE: short in headlight wiring ... somewhere
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 15 Jun 97 00:04:11 UT
  ...A couple of times it seems to ahve un-done itself when I jiggled and repeatedly switched the high beams switch on the steering...
• MORE info Re: headlights not working after towing???
  Historical mailing list - David Most
  Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:42:38 -0600
  ...In other words, the high beam indicator is on ALL of the time when the light switch is on. For your reference again, all...
• Re: high beam indicator
  Historical mailing list - Eric Henning
  Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:24:49 -0500
  ...I switched it to a green LED so I wouldn't panic when I saw a red LED after I forgot my high beams...
• Re: Headlight Wiring
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:29:04 -0800
  ...Red/Yellow - primary juice White/Black - juice from the light switch Yellow - low beam White - high beam If you only have three wires, you...
• Re: SA inner Highbeams Cutout Circuit
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Mon, 5 May 2014 23:34:11 -0500
  ...If the switch is turned > to the second position...when the high beams are on it sends power to the > relay which lights the...
• Re: Low Beams out, Where to Look?
  Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
  Fri, 26 Nov 2004 05:10:28 +0000
  ...No low beams on the headlights. With switch on, ignition on, >all other standing lights come on (tail lights and marker lights). High >and...
• Re: Non-working headlamps
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 23 Dec 2020 20:25:42 -0800
  ...don't work on high or low beam, however when I operate the lever to switch to high beam they flash on momentarily then...
• Re: Brights & lights
  Historical mailing list - J \"Westy\"
  Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:47:04 -0600
  ...When the high beams are on > all 4 bulbs should always be lit. The main outer bulbs are dual filament > Hi/Lo. The inners...
• Re: Headlights Out
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:56:54 -0800
  ...I've only lost high beams from that multi-point ground spot .. or maybe had dim high beams. I always convert any push-on...
• Re: Hey, it's awful dark out there tonight....
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:58:44 -0400
  Did you check the ground for the headlights, located on one of the grounding stars right above the fuse/relay panel? IIRC, high beams...
• Arrgh.. Headlights out on 86
  Historical mailing list - Ryan
  Fri, 23 May 2008 22:15:36 -0400
  ...Here's the facts No low beams or high beams High beam indicator does light Fuses are good Swapped rocker switch with one that...
• Re: intermittent headlight failure
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:47:41 +0100
  ...to drive using the passing beams (which still will work just fine). This works for a reason! The high/low dimmer switch in the...
• Re: HID light upgrades - anyone try them?
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:54:59 -0400
  ...type of kit > - low beam only, dual bulb HID for high an low, mechanically moving HID > bulb for high and low or the HID...
• Re: HIDs on a Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Poppie Jagersand
  Tue, 9 Dec 2008 20:52:41 -0800
  ...as Xenon elements are single - in order to get high beam and low > beam you need a moving element and they are pretty much...
• Re: Headlight Problem
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth D Lewis
  Wed, 4 Jul 2001 20:46:20 -0400
  ...The blue indicator light for the high beams is lit, > regardless of > whether or not high beams are selected. So, the culprit is the...
• Re: Light switches
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:14:28 EST
  ...The passing >high beam flasher works so I have high beams if I want to hold the >dimmer switch up while I drive. The...
• Re: Fuse Box Blues/1991 Resolved
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Fri, 25 May 2001 13:35:05 -0700
  ...high beam RIGHT >10. 10 amp ....................... high beam LEFT >11. 15 amp ....................... windshield wipers and washer pump >12. 20 amp ....................... cruise control, a/c...