BTDT, congratulations, you have just aquired a melted headlight switch.
The good news is that any pre 80 rabbit or scirocco has the same switch or
you can shell out about $25 US from one of the discount parts places.  Buy
two switches as I have killed two in the last year.  The last one was 1
hour from home at 2am!

At 10:11 8/31/98 PDT, susan hafler wrote:
>hello, listees,
>my low beams (headlights) aren't working. neither are my highbeams,
>except when i manually pull the high-beam lever toward me and hold it
>(as if i were turning on the high beams). what does this mean and how do
>i fix it? i'm hoping it's just a fuse, although i haven't checked.
>
>thanks, all
>
>susan and magnus (87 synro gl)
>now in brattleboro, vermont
>
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