>  Has anyone ever had their headlight switch go bad to the point where the
>  headlights won't go on but the parking lights will?  I'm 99% sure this is
>  what it is although I haven't verified it with a volt meter yet.  It just
>  seemed like a strange thing to fail so I wanted to poll the list to see if I
>  am not alone.

        I had this happen. It was soon followed by the switch not
being stuck in one of the on positions without headlamps. I didn't
have a spare, but I found that the high/low beam connection in the
plug base can be bridged by the same blade fuses the vanagon uses.
I powered the parking lamps from posts taken from the switch and
connected via clipped test leads...

dave