In a message dated 26/09/2005 12:25:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:

Hi  Everyone,
So I've been having headlight trouble for a little while and  today they sort
of quit on me.  I have had the relays and brighter  bulbs installed for
almost two years now with no problems what so ever and  pretty good light.
So here is the problem,  in the low beam setting I  now have the two outers
on but at about 40% the normal brightness and  sometimes the right inner also
glows a little on the low beam  setting.  Now if I switch to high beams the
first problem is the high  beam indicator does not light up,  it did
yesterday and only the right  side inner lights up nother out of the left.  I
have swapped all the  bulbs and they all work in the working light so I know
that is not  it.  It has not blown any fuses. I replaced one of the relays
with a  spare and still nothing All the wiring for the relays look good but
on the  left side headlight it looks like the pig tale got a little hot and
has  some black plastic but still makes contact and is not very bad and that
is  the bulb that works.  Anyone ever run into this before? Or have any  tips?

Kevin, most likely the pigtail sockets have gotten  overheated from poor
contact.  The best thing to do is to replace the two  sockets with new ones.  They
are available from most any good FLAPS.   Make sure to make good watertight
splices using heat shrink butt  connectors.  Use Dielectric grease on the
contact of the bulb to the socket  and you will not have any more problems.  BTDT a
few times now on mine and  customers vans.

Cheers,

Frank  Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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