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• A light mystery
  Historical mailing list - turbowesty
  Mon, 30 May 2011 17:35:59 -0400
  ...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: Help with 1991 Vanagon headlights
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:04:21 -0800
  ...Low beams on both sides were off. However, > my low beams did would work when I switch to my brights. I sheepishly, > drove home...
• Re: Driving Lights?
  Historical mailing list - Redwood
  Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:08:54 -0700
  ...on US vehicles, do the low beams usually stay on at night when the high beams are used? My concern is that on my...
• Re: help, headlights not working
  Historical mailing list - Jeff and Tamara Nelson
  Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:20:32 -0700
  Loretta, If you're referring to the high/low beam lever then I would check your ignition switch. There are several items (I can...
• Re: Winking Westy
  Historical mailing list - Rick Sherrod (Certifiable VW mech)
  Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:46:32 +0000
  ...Winking Westy > > This is weird... > > My '87 Westy is winking its headlights > > When I switch on my high beams, the right-hand low beam...
• Re: Square Headlights
  Historical mailing list - JordanVw
  Tue, 19 May 1998 03:58:35 EDT
  ...Low Beam: 301-130-830 High Beam: 301-127-760-01 The High beams have the letter E within a circle on the lens...
• Re: Headlight improvements IMHO
  Historical mailing list - Filcoff, David M.
  Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:21:00 -0600
  ...The low beams are excellent, I almost never use my high beams, but I do sometimes anyway :). This past weekend I went to Bustoberfest...
• Re: Headlight low beam failure
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 4 Dec 2016 11:32:45 -0800
  ...Nice try Neil :-) Yeah, I have 10 A fuses in that circuit, one for each side low beam. I don't think it was...
• Re: Headlight Operation
  Historical mailing list - Mike B
  Tue, 1 Oct 2013 09:05:41 -0400
  ...dual headlights where both > high and low beams were on at the same time?? Like low beams are just > on and when the dimmer...
• Re: Headlights Out
  Historical mailing list - William H. Collins
  Fri, 13 Nov 1998 07:49:58 EDT
  Its certainly possible that both low beams are out. Do you start the van with the headlights on? Sometimes there is a voltage surge...
• Re: Headlight Upgrade Dilemma
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:28:05 -0500
  ...Your false info said the > high beams don't rely on those switches and that installing the relay > moves only low beams. This is...
• Re: No Low Beams
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 8 Dec 1999 11:54:55 EST
  Tom, There are two fuses (Bentley says 3 and 4) for the low beams. There are no relays in the system. The other three...
• Re: Lightbulb for instrument panel
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:40:59 -0500
  ...your high beams are "noticed" by on-coming traffic - many >vanagons are not! Now c'mon, it's the low beams that are bad...
• Re: Headlights Out
  Historical mailing list - Tyrone Greene
  Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:29:16 -0500
  ...Here are the symptoms: > > (1) With ignition ON and headlight switch on, low beams do not work, but > high beams do. > (5) Ignition switch...
• Re: HELP!! No Headlights - 87 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Ric Golen
  Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:53:56 -0400
  ...switch, the high beam light comes on and stays on despite using the flasher to switch between high and low beams... Ric > Check your...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list - Mark Sheflo
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:52:43 -0800
  ...FOG lights.....for use with the low beam lights in the fog. DRIVING LIGHTS......for additional light when the high beams are in use...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE
  Historical mailing list - Loren A. Busch
  Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:14:44 -0800
  ...Generic, for the front of the vehicle, can contain 'high' beam, 'low' beam, or both. Low beams set to illuminate immediately in front and...
• Re: headlight adjusters
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Mulligan
  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:41:41 -0400
  ...For the inner headlamps (high-beam only): 255.941.141B - Upper High-Beam Adjuster 255.941.133A - Lower High-Beam Adjuster For the outers...
• advice needed for '90 Weekender Carat
  Historical mailing list - Greg Kriss
  Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:48:31 -0400
  ...Is there an easy way to improve the low beams? The high beams are teriffic but the low beams are as bad as the...
• Re: OOPS! Wrong attribution! Re: Headlights Out
  Historical mailing list - Steven Min
  Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:02:28 -0800
  ...On my van I have one low out but the high beam comes on. Can >>>always buy one bulb and replace it, if the...
• help, brights won't stay on
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Danrich
  Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:38:38 -1000
  I can't get the low or hi beams to stay on. The only way I can get my lights to work is to...
• Re: fog light wiring ?'s
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Sat, 7 Nov 1998 17:04:38 -0800
  ...to come on with the low beams, and the pencil > beams to come on with the high beams. It would be nice to be...
• HELP!! No Headlights - 87 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:06:17 -0400
  Hi! The headlights (both high and low beam) have ceased to function on my 87 Westy. I have parking lights, tail lights license and...
• Re: Brighter Headlight Bulb 86-91
  Historical mailing list - Dave
  Thu, 4 Jun 1998 20:04:59 -0500
  ...I did put relays on each set (High/Low) but other than that they are stock DOT low beams. The next time I replace...
• Re: GE High output "bulbs"
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:59:59 EST
  ...hi-beams on, when i just have the low beams on, cuz theyre so bright... :<) then i just hold the high beam on, and...
• aux headlights
  Historical mailing list - Rick Koller
  Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:21:39 -0500
  ...There are the round driving lights (Hella 550's) and also a type of auxilary low-beams that are foglight in shape and size...
• Re: Headlight hi-beam issues
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Thu, 7 Apr 2016 09:10:00 -0700
  ...Low beams are fine on both > sides. If I turn on high beams, the drivers side turns off completely > and the passenger side works...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:20:58 EST
  ...to drove in > traffic (even around town) with the lower lights on in conjunction with the > low beams. So far no one has flashed...
• HIGH POWERED HEADLIGHT
  Historical mailing list - Pat Patterson
  Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:15:06 -0500
  ...it works OK with 4 100 watt high beams and two 80 watt low beams, until it destroys the plastic connectors. Pat 86 AW...
• Re: Brights & lights
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:10:24 EST
  ...the brights come on? > > both the high beams and low beams come on at the same time when the high beams are on. chris
• Re: headlight bulb question...
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 3 Mar 2003 19:33:53 -0500
  ...When on >low beam, only the outer 2 are on. Gotta say, I really don't see how these can be driving lights if...
• Lights on '82 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - VWQ47
  Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:21:34 +1000
  ...When I turn them on both high and low beam are on. When I turn OFF high beam, low beam goes off ( I think...
• Re: Still no passenger side high beam
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:57:54 EST
  ...So here is the senario has high powered relays, works fine in low beam both sides work, if I turn on the high beams...
• 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...
• The drama continues -> Both low beams burnt out at same time?
  Historical mailing list - Luke Bakken
  Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:42:12 -0700
  ...I'm assuming the correct behavior > is for the low beam side to switch off when the high beams come on. > > The main thing...
• Re: Low Beams out, Where to Look?
  Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
  Fri, 26 Nov 2004 05:10:28 +0000
  ...Low Beams out, Where to Look? >Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:53:55 -0800 > >I'm coming to the list before I start...
• Re: WTB: Round Headlight assembly from '85 and older
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:03:05 -0600
  ...low beams issue that John is experiencing has nothing at all to > do with the SA Grill, since it typically doesn't come with...
• Re: Hella E-Codes vs. Vision Plus?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:18:06 -0500
  As a Cibie e-code user I confirm that low beam and high beam aiming is not an issue in those excellent headlights. Yet...
• Re: Gah. Inspections
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:24:40 -0400
  ...Just power the foglight relay from the low beam wire. Then > >they will come on when > >the low beams are on. Since you will...
• Re: So... what is the answer for these poor lights?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:02:22 -0400
  At 02:16 PM 6/5/2003, Ri wrote: >Our low beams SUCK. Our high beams are ok! But, even our high beams don...
• 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...
• Looking for more square vanagon headlights (left low beam really)
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:04:26 -0400
  I am in need of at least one Vanagon square left side (driver's side) low beam headlight housing in good used condition. That...
• Re: Vanagon grilles and lights
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Sun, 23 Jan 2000 08:07:59 -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...
• SA headlights....(wiring snafu)
  Historical mailing list - Mike Garske
  Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:26:49 -0800
  ...I hooked the wiring up so I have high beams on the headlights at low beam and this makes the inner lights glow brighter...
• Re: problems with high beams
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:37:41 -0400
  ...problems with high beams problem: activating the high beam switch turns off the low beams but no high beams are coming on. Incidentally, recently...
• Funny old Trucklite
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 6 Mar 2022 13:28:25 -0800
  ...But noted funny high beam to low beam delay on Trucklite. The internet says this is not the first time https://shufti.blog/2022...
• Re: Hella Driving Lights:
  Historical mailing list - Dan Barrett
  Thu, 5 Dec 2002 13:33:22 -0500
  ...http://www.offthehill.org/~dan/mudskipper_photo_gallery.html > Driving lights will not improve the performance of low beam headlights as > they should be...
• Headlights--High beam
  Historical mailing list - John Houser
  Wed, 16 May 2001 14:24:35 EDT
  ...They, howerver, stay on low beam. Is this a symptom of a broken relay or what? What do I look for and how do...
• Low Beams out, Where to Look?
  Historical mailing list - LOREN BUSCH
  Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:53:55 -0800
  ...No low beams on the headlights. With switch on, ignition on, all other standing lights come on (tail lights and marker lights). High and...
• Who has the SA Grilles for sale?
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Thu, 26 Nov 1998 18:56:04 -0800
  ...sharp cutoff low beam system with independently aimable low and high beams. IMNSHO the original lights are comparatively poor in beam pattern and evenness...
• Re: CHEAP Headlamp upgrade?
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:29:53 -0500
  ...lower and upper beam > headlights, fog lamps, driving lamps and auxiliary lower beam headlights. Does this mean they will finally wise up and accept...
• Re: Low Beams out, Where to Look?
  Historical mailing list - Wes Ullrich
  Fri, 26 Nov 2004 06:33:43 -0500
  ...Low Beams out, Where to Look? &gt;Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 05:10:28 +0000 &gt; &gt;check the headlight dimmer switch. does...
• HID headlights
  Historical mailing list - Alex Towner
  Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:09:54 -0500
  ...1) It is impossible to have a high / low beam bulb. A conventional bulb just puts 2 separate filaments inside of one bulb to...
• Re: Upgrading Projectzwo Bulbs to 100w and/or Yellow
  Historical mailing list - Jon Brown
  Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:23:22 -0800
  ...Very low flat beam of light spread far to both the left and > right. Low enough to stay out of eyes. Not to belabor...
• Re: HIDs on a Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:27:28 -0800
  ...In my former Golf Country with 7" H4 lights, I used a low beam only HID system and it worked reasonably well.� The issue...
• Some good info about E-code headlamps & "City Lights"
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:27:18 -0700
  ...Why? Beam patterns are better (wider, longer-reaching) on low and high beam with Cibies. The main difference, though, is that 7" round and...
• Lighting Upgrades
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:01:00 -0700
  ...Easily dimmed for oncoming traffic to the unobstrusive low beam pattern (aimed correctly) Unfortunately most H4 E-Code reflectors are designed for a nominal...
• Re: So... what is the answer for these poor lights?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 7 Jun 2003 11:07:21 +1200
  ...You can't legally (or morally) use South African main headlights, as the low-beam cutoff is on the wrong side for LHD countries...
• CHEAP Headlamp upgrade?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Fox
  Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:52:45 -0600
  Does anyone know of a cheap way to upgrade the low beam headlights in an 86 Vanagon (square headlights). The stock low beams do...
• Re: fog lights
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:37:01 -0500
  ...not solenoid. >I tapped my solenoid into my low-beam headlamp wire so that they shut off with the high-beams and shut off...