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• Re: No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:48:53 -0400
  ...I >appears that when I pull up on the lever for high beams I'm getting >nothing, >all four ('90 Westy) lights out, not...
• Re: headlight bulb question...
  Historical mailing list - Ben McCafferty
  Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:47:34 -0700
  OK, the inner (driving) lights are square, and a single wattage. They come on only when the high beams are on. The outer lights...
• Re: headlight bulb question...
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:19:53 -0600
  ...They come >on only when the high beams are on. The outer lights (headlights?) are dual >wattage, for high and low beam. The outers...
• trigger current for highbeam relay
  Historical mailing list - Robyn Rudisill
  Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:36:29 -0600
  ...high beams go through on the fuse block? I am trying to get my new spot lights to turn off with the high beams...
• Re: Extra Headlight Question + Driving Lights?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:45:39 -0700
  ...lights have a long narrow beam for and are only useful on very long straight stretches, they should not be used for on-highway...
• Re: No headlights.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 31 Aug 2016 23:16:32 -0400
  ...Parking lights work fine > on that setting. With the headlights on, I get parking lights plus > high beam LED plus orange tail lights. High...
• Re: Man, I am backing up now...on the light install..
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:32:18 -0700
  ...I'm trying to install some KC lights into my 84.. > > Now, my high beam indicator light stays on regardless. It worked ok > before...
• Re: High Power Headlight Kit (SA): melting connector
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sun, 7 Jun 2009 22:26:59 -0600
  ...I ran short ground wires to the steel "firewall" directly behind the lights. I also have Hella 550 "high beam" lights on my bumper...
• Re: Aux driving lights question..best easy power source..?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:06:16 -0700
  ...So, if I want the aux lights on, I have to >>> run >>> the high beams..and if I dim the high beams, the aux...
• Re: Lights on '82 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:43:27 -0500
  ...When I turn OFF high > beam, low beam goes off ( I think that is the way, but it is hard to tell > which click...
• Re: electrical problems with headlights
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 2 Feb 2003 20:58:44 -0500
  ...No headlights or highbeams. Indicator lights, rear lights, flashing lights are working. Switching on the headlight switch turns on the high beam indicator light...
• Re: A light mystery
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 31 May 2011 22:13:24 -0400
  ...However I swapped a couple of fuses so while I have both low beams now I only have 3 of 4 high beam lights...
• Re: South African Grille headlight conversion on an 84 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:24:10 +1200
  ...ie > >-outers low beams & inners high > >or > >-outers both low and high and inners running lights > >How are stock SA's set up? How...
• Re: City Lights
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Sun, 14 Nov 1999 23:35:42 +0100
  ...DRL's are typically high-beams of the vehicle, operated at > 80% voltage. I find it strange that the high beams are used as...
• Re: So... what is the answer for these poor lights?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:02:22 -0400
  ...Euro-spec round lights with H4 bulbs (huge improvement over any US-pattern light). You'll lose the inner high-beams but the loss...
• Re: auxillary low beams?
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:08:44 -0500
  ...not high >beam only). The Hella website doesn't really show vertical beam pattern >for their aux. lights. What about some 7" driving lights...
• Re: South African Grille headlight conversion on an 84 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:06:45 EDT
  ...MAC.COM writes: << -outers low beams & inners high or -outers both low and high and inners running lights How are stock SA's set...
• Re: No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
  Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:03:53 -0400
  ...For those of you that talked about > the 'no > lights, some lights if I hold up the high/low beam stalk' I've BTDT...
• Re: Headlight Question
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:44:34 -0800
  ...Fuse 9 is high beams right side. Fuse 10 is left side high beams. You can always swap those two and see if problem...
• Man, I am backing up now...on the light install..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:07:51 -0700
  ...Just for fun, I re-connected the battery and the stinkin high beam indicator light comes on..Key on, key off lights on lights...
• Re: vanagon diesel questions
  Historical mailing list - Mike Catlin
  Thu, 2 Jan 1997 20:06:05 -0800 (PST)
  ...3, except right side #5 is high beam left and indicator lights, 8 amps #6 is high beam right, 8 amps #7 is accessories...
• Re: Daytime running lights...so what's the problem here?
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Thu, 17 Sep 1998 12:40:54 PDT
  ...the high beam's. The glare will always be the problem. Even NHTSA agreed >and have recommended reducing the intensity of the lights over...
• No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:55:16 -0700
  ...I appears that when I pull up on the lever for high beams I'm getting nothing, all four ('90 Westy) lights out, not...
• Re: New SA grill
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:53:31 EDT
  ...They're basically > high-beam type lights with no upper cutoff. If they're on, you're blinding > oncoming traffic. > > If you mean the...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:20:58 EST
  ...the driving lights are just mounted so high. > Not only that, the pattern they put out is very much a spot beam, very > concentrated...
• HID headlights
  Historical mailing list - Alex Towner
  Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:09:54 -0500
  ...get the high beams to work on the outside lights. (Perhaps you could use the inner lights as your only high beams instead.) Since...
• Aux driving lights question..best easy power source..?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:46:41 -0700
  ...So, if I want the aux lights on, I have to run the high beams..and if I dim the high beams, the aux...
• Re: High beam short?
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Vickers
  Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:51:17 -0700
  ...I switch back to low beams and the low >> beams are still working---get home and both 10 amp high beam fuses >> are blown...
• Re: SA Grille & Lights
  Historical mailing list - Chris Szpejankowski
  Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:55:15 -0500
  ...Loved the high beams and the sharp cutoff but the low beams > didn't suit me at all. With my height in the seat...
• Low Beams VERY dim!
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Sat, 8 Aug 1998 14:19:25 -0700
  The low beam head lights on my 90 Westy Syncro are so dim it is hard to see at night! High Beams are fine...
• Re: SA grills available again
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:48:26 EST
  ...lights". ;) Does a Vanagon driving alone on the highway make any noise? ;) I use the driving lights to suppliment the existing high beams, yes...
• Re: square headlight upgrade kit
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:55:53 -0600
  ...the high beams are adequate, but the low beams stink. I have added a pair of bumper top mounted Hella fog lights which I...
• Fuse Box Blues
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Fri, 18 May 2001 22:14:15 -0700
  ...fog lights 7. tail and side light left 8. tail and side light right 9. high beam right 10. high beam left 11. windscreen...
• Re: newibie
  Historical mailing list - Chris McEwen
  Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:23:55 -0700
  ...High beam indicator works on parking lights (?!?) when the key is on accessory and goes out when key is moved to on. (3) High...
• Re: 91 Westy - SA Grill upgrade?
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Mon, 17 Nov 2014 14:07:32 -0800
  ...In my application, I do the aiming with the dipped beam/cutoff as most of my driving can be done without high beams. Pensionerd...
• Re: Hella E-Codes vs. Vision Plus?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 2 Dec 2008 07:40:58 -0800
  ...these HID kits in the Hella 500 high beam lights and the Vanagon H3 high beam lights - the wow factor is there! As for...
• High beams not working
  Historical mailing list - Pat Patterson
  Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:06:47 -0500
  Not one of my hi beams or the blue indicator are working. My low beams work as do my fog lights. I have the...
• Re: New SA grill
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:39:52 -0700
  ...They're basically high-beam type lights with no upper cutoff. If they're on, you're blinding oncoming traffic. If you mean the...
• Re: Vanagon grilles and lights
  Historical mailing list - Kent Christensen
  Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:04:47 -0700
  ...Yellow (which feels like a dimmer white) is the low beam wire and white (white hot) is the high beam wire--these are the...
• Headlights Not Working!
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Beasley
  Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:12:23 -0400
  ...dash turns the console lights on and the running lights on. The curious thing is that the blue high-beam indicator light on the...
• Re: HID light upgrades - anyone try them?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:12:31 -0700
  ...My wife's Acura TL has genuine factory HID lights which use the same housing and one light bulb for high and low beams...
• Re: A light mystery
  Historical mailing list - turbowesty
  Mon, 30 May 2011 18:39:51 -0400
  ...However I swapped a couple of fuses so while I have both low beams now I only have 3 of 4 high beam lights...
• Re: 91 Westy - SA Grill upgrade?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 16 Nov 2014 05:45:26 -0800
  ...While these are a huge improvement over the standard stock round headlights, the angle between the high beam and the low beam is slightly...
• Re: Headlight Operation
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Thu, 10 Apr 2014 23:30:35 -0600
  ...high beam filaments in them, and change from one to the other when you turn on the high beams; the inside high beam lights...
• Re: Both low beams burnt out at same time?
  Historical mailing list - honemastert
  Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:59:32 -0700
  ...is a bit high, esp on my Syncro which has the SA grille installed and the inner 100w high beam lights. (GoWesty Kit) One...
• Who has the SA Grilles for sale?
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Thu, 26 Nov 1998 18:56:04 -0800
  ...IMNSHO the original lights are comparatively poor in beam pattern and evenness of illumination even with higher wattage bulbs installed. Fashionable perhaps, functional, not...
• headlights again
  Historical mailing list - Shawn
  Sat, 4 May 2002 13:03:56 -0500
  ...The lights will work only on low. When the dimmer switch is tripped the lights become noticeably brighter and the high beam indicator comes...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list - Mark Sheflo
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:43:02 -0800
  Chris, Seems to me that if these are a true driving light then they are the equivalent of a high beam light, if not...
• Re: Pzwo lower grille foglights NLA
  Historical mailing list - DaveC
  Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:14:48 -0800
  ...Not ads >>additional headlights. >> >>>And, the thing is if one flashes their highbeams at the guy with his >>>fog >>>lights on in the SUV...
• Re: Vanagon grilles and lights
  Historical mailing list - Dick Taylor
  Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:25:31 -0800
  ...Plus, with the high beams (and the low beams) on, when I turn on the XLs it really lights up the winter landscape. It...
• Re: Square Headlights
  Historical mailing list - JordanVw
  Tue, 19 May 1998 03:58:35 EDT
  ...part numbers on the lights: Low Beam: 301-130-830 High Beam: 301-127-760-01 The High beams have the letter E within...
• Re: Hella Driving Lights:
  Historical mailing list - Dan Barrett
  Thu, 5 Dec 2002 13:33:22 -0500
  ...Driving lights will not improve the performance of low beam headlights as > they should be wired to only come on with the high beams.
• Re: So... what is the answer for these poor lights?
  Historical mailing list - Bill N
  Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:51:14 -0700
  ...If the aux switch is on, then the center driving lights come on and off with the high beams. With the eurospec outer lights...
• Re: ya say ya can't see at night? blind as a bat?? ..
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Diebolt
  Sun, 03 Nov 1996 19:02:17 -0500
  ...to tuern off their high \beams when I was driving that old bus. >some Hella Vision Plus halogen lights. BIG improvement. H4 halogen bulb...
• Re: Man, I am backing up now...on the light install..
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:52:48 -0700
  ...I'm trying to install some KC lights into my 84.. > > Now, my high beam indicator light stays on regardless. It worked ok > before...
• More Headlights
  Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
  Fri, 13 Mar 1998 20:14:45 -0500
  ...The high beams were awesome. The question then is... has anyone else noticed this similarity and are the e-code Scirocco lights (still available...
• Re: Aux driving lights question..best easy power source..?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:59:38 -0700
  ...So, if I want the aux lights on, I have to run > the high beams..and if I dim the high beams, the aux...
• headlights OUT!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Davis
  Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:39:31 EDT
  ...After turning my lights on and the blue high beam indicator was on, I clicked the lever to turn them to low beams. Nothing...
• Re: Headlight upgrades
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 23 Jan 2016 12:41:35 +0000
  ...Headlight upgrades > > Fag lights are usually wired so they only work with the low beams. Using > both defeats the purpose of the high beams...
• Re: SA inner Highbeams Cutout Circuit
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 5 May 2014 16:54:02 -0700
  ...If the switch is turned to the second position...when the high beams are on it sends power to the relay which lights the...