right after checking things and replacing a blown sidelight small bulb i ahve now come to this stage.

cars now charging at 13.8, cleaned main earth from battery, cleaned starter connections and alternator connections with sand paper then greased up with some grease and reconnected, started well and chargeding fine.

basiclly the car has lost it power to the main headlights beam.

no1 setting sidelight works
no2 setting no main lights

the fog lights work and flash as they should on main beam for fog etc.

so its just the no2 setting for main lights to drive at night time that have lost there power.

also throught the rev rang is there any relay or anything in the xr3i's engine management side that makes the car rev harder or help pull the revs round faster on the rpm gauge. Since it went abit strange yesterday it seem abit flat and slow in the rev rpm needle going around the gauge when u accelerate hard. where as before it was more spikey from 4k upwards, whereas now its abit more flat and goes round slow. but the car still travels fast aswell as strange as it all sounds.

cheers