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Subject:Re: Light switches
From:John McLean
Date:Tue, 16 Nov 1999 04:46:52 -0800

I have a similar problem:  my headlights (high and low) stopped coming
on. The dash lights comeon and the park lights come on.  The passing
high beam flasher works so I have high beams if I want to hold the
dimmer switch up while I drive. The fuses are still good.  I replaced
the dash hadlight switch with another and still have the same situation.

Jaymac, 87 vanagon GL

A & C Grobey wrote:

>  My headlights have been giving me problems lately where they turn off
> while driving on a bumpy road.  They also sometimes do not turn on
> without jiggling the switch a little.  Now they won't come on at all.
> I think it is the switch itself that has gone bad.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.Alan Grobey
> '91 Carat
> Sherwood, OR

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