Night vision
Night vision
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dougc

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8,241 posts

294 months

Monday 18th July 2005
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I was out with a mate on Thursday night taking advantage of the good weather and enjoying a late evening hoon when my headlights packed up. The sidelights work as does the full beam but the main beam cuts in and out. It is sensitive to bumps in the road so I assume it's a connection problems somewhere. I'll check it all this evening but was wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if so what the solution was?

spivvy

1,535 posts

283 months

Monday 18th July 2005
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almost certainly the connectors in the wheel arches ,they get all sorts of muck on them

F908 Tim

740 posts

268 months

Monday 18th July 2005
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Had the same. Dismantle earth on chassis below windscreen washer bottle by front left wheel arch,clean up and slap on loads of vasaline.Reassemble. Should be fixed.
If not,its probably a worn contact on the swith itself.
That's from Fiesta or Escort and easy/cheap enough to replace the switch unit complete.
Also check and rebind connectors inside front wings back from headlamps to chassis,as said, they get all the crap hurled up on them.
Hope helps.

GreenV8S

31,014 posts

313 months

Monday 18th July 2005
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Replace the crappy Ripault interior grade connectors with proper waterproof Sureseal ones.

dougc

Original Poster:

8,241 posts

294 months

Wednesday 20th July 2005
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Well, thanks for all the input but the problem turned out to be [numptymode] a loose fuse [/numptymode]. I guess I should have tried this forst before expecing the worst! Inspection did reveal a veritable jungle of wiring and connectors that look a little questionable so a bit of cleaning and refitting is needed.

I'll add the job to the (ever growing) list.