Hi John,

Same thing happened to me.  I bought my van in Portland and was driving it
back home to Sac at night and all of a sudden - no lights!  This was on I-5
in the middle of nowhere - about by Lake Shasta - hilly & curvy & cold.
Finally figured out the "stalk trick" and followed a semi into Redding.  It
was spooky.

I needed a new ignition switch.

Werner

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:15:23 -0600, John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote:

>  New experience. Got in the van last night, turned on the headlights.
>Nothing! Dash lights OK, driving lights OK, brake lights OK. No head
>lights. No high beams, no low beams. BUT - if I hold the
>turn-signal/bright/dimm stalk in the 'back" position - i.e - towards the
>driver. ALL the headlights come on, but immediately go off when released.
>
>This is a new event to me. I checked the big connector at the right of
>the instrument cluster and it seems tight. Any one experienced this
>before? Have any ideas where to start looking for the trouble?
>
>Thanks,
>
>John
>
>--
>John Rodgers
>Clayartist and Moldmaker
>88'GL VW Bus Driver
>Chelsea, AL
>Http://www.moldhaus.com