I have wondered about this. On both of my US model '88 GL's - Any time I
switch from high to low or low to high - the opposite set of lights turn
off - or on - depending how you look at it. Never any high and low beam
combination on at the same time, except when you do thew momentary flash
thing.

John
On 4/10/2014 8:44 PM, James wrote:
> In '86-91 Vanagons, the outside headlights have both low beam and high beam filaments in them, and change from one to the other when you turn on the high beams;  the inside high beam lights come on at the same time.
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> At least, that's how our '91's headlights work - but it's a Canadian market model.  Maybe the US market square headlights were different.
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> (On a side note, the low beams on our 2003 Toyota Matrix stay on when the separate, inner high beams are turned on.)
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> James
> Ottawa, ON
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>> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 18:49:26 -0600
>> From: OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET
>> Subject: Re: Headlight Operation
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
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>>           ~ Something like this ~ It's a '90Westy ~
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>> https://picasaweb.google.com/109991183317103413704/VDUBARU?authkey=Gv1sRgCMW42OH705nRDA#5999344609026723170
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>>          ~ Sorry about the DelayedResponse ~
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>>                                                                                          ORR ~ DeanB
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>> On 30 Sep , 2013, at 10:07 PM, JRodgers wrote:
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>>> Was there ever a model year of Vanagon with dual headlights where both
>>> high and low beams were on at the same time??  Like low beams are just
>>> on  and when the dimmer control switch was pulled the brights come on
>>> and the low beams remain on as well? Or something simmilar?
>>>
>>> Just curious.
>>>
>>> John
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