headlights shut off for no reason?
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Melting Slicks
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headlights shut off for no reason?
Well the other night I was on a country road about midnight and had the highbeams on, no other person around and out of nowhere the headlights shut off. I pushed the h/l switch to off the turned em back on. They worked the rest of the way home but didn't use the high beams. So couple of things, it did this last fall in the exact same area about the same time which is creepy or the headlight switch is overheating causing the circut breaker to trip shutting off the lights. High beams are stock replacement and the lows are Hellas with the stock wattage bulb. What could be causing this?
Le Mans Master
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From: Central Texas
I had this happen to me one day prior to sunrise. That was fortunate. I had upgraded all of my headlights with new halogens prior to that. The headlight switch has some type of circuit that keeps it from overloading. So what I did was install relays to turn on the lights. This allowed the switch not to handle all of the voltage when the lights were on. No more problems. There are numerous threads on the headlight upgrade if you do a search.
Racer
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From: Mulberry Florida
Well the other night I was on a country road about midnight and had the highbeams on, no other person around and out of nowhere the headlights shut off. I pushed the h/l switch to off the turned em back on. They worked the rest of the way home but didn't use the high beams. So couple of things, it did this last fall in the exact same area about the same time which is creepy or the headlight switch is overheating causing the circut breaker to trip shutting off the lights. High beams are stock replacement and the lows are Hellas with the stock wattage bulb. What could be causing this?
Larry
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Melting Slicks
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I had this happen to me one day prior to sunrise. That was fortunate. I had upgraded all of my headlights with new halogens prior to that. The headlight switch has some type of circuit that keeps it from overloading. So what I did was install relays to turn on the lights. This allowed the switch not to handle all of the voltage when the lights were on. No more problems. There are numerous threads on the headlight upgrade if you do a search.
