Running lite problem....
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Instructor
Joined: Aug 2004
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Running lite problem....
,,,had no tailights or front running lites so I replaced the main switch....then I had both, for a few minutes. Turned off and on, and then had just front runnning lites. Now, I sometimes have one, both or none......
Where would you start???
thanks as always...
Where would you start???
thanks as always...
Safety Car
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 4,068
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From: St. Joseph Mo
No front parking lights with headlights on is normal.
If your headlights are on for a short time and go out (with the handel pulled all the way out) there is a short in the wireing. Headlight switch has a circuit breaker built in.
If your headlights are on for a short time and go out (with the handel pulled all the way out) there is a short in the wireing. Headlight switch has a circuit breaker built in.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 768
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From: Leavenworth Washington
63 is right about head lights versus parking lights (they weren't called running lights then). He is also right about the circuit breaker . It seems somewhere I read that it doesn't just cut off though. It actually "blinks" the lights so that if you have a problem at night you don't totally wind up in the dark or smoke your wiring with a dead short. It will try and give you something to limp home. Certain that John Z would know if this is right or in error.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Nov 2000
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From: Going too fast over the hill. Iowa
The car headlamp circuit breakers are automatic thermal reset type - similar in function to those found in most small appliances (hair dryers, etcetera) - not like the manual reset breakers in most modern home power boxes. If an overload heats the breaker it disconnects the circuit until the breaker cools - may take seconds or minutes.
IMO your car appears normal.
IMO your car appears normal.
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