my headlights in my saff 4x4 stopped working

replaced the bulbs and also noticed there was a 20a fuse in there so swapped that for a 10a one

still dont work, they did come on for a brief second

is there anything else i can check on it? or is it a job for the auto-electricans now

 

What works and what doesn't? Do you have sidelights?

 

the ltlle relay things thats what it was on our lasses rs turbo little brown ones..........

thats if the saffs have them....

 

does the switch work?

have you got side lights?

have the plugs fallen out fo teh back?

 

Sapphs have brown or white ones but they both do the same job. I have loads of spares now after my headlight problems I have a switch, all the relays & the lamp diplay ecu

 

yep the switch works, if can switch the light lights on then when you try putting main beam on they get even dimmer than the side lights (only 1, the other doesn't come on at all)

and the high beam work fine


help

 

That isn't what mine was doing. On sidelights do your dipped beam bulbs illuminate?

 

Try putting a correct size fuse back in (not a 10A!) and see what happens then. By the sound of it, if they came on briefly after replacing the 20A fuse with a 10A, they just blew the 10A one, most probably because it wasn't the correct size! (I Don't know what it should be on a Saff)

 

yip thats exactly what our lasses car was doing and it was the brown reley

 

My car has some sort of similar problem, it keeps shorting and melting the wiring loom that connects to the stalks on the steering colum, its done it three times, 1st time only a little puff of smoke and i ignored it, 2nd time there was big damage to this part of the loom and had to get this section of loom out of the breakers to do a transplant, 3rd and last time only two wires were damaged, auto sparkie has done another repair but now i too have no head lights

Can anybody shed any light?


Luciano

 

If it is the brown relay I have one sat here on my desk at home that you can have

 

that sounds like there is too much load being drawn across the wires rather than it being a specicif lighting issue

can someone with proper working lights give some readings as to what sort of power should be going through them wires?

 

cant remember which illuminate now

i think they do but will double check 2nite, what does that tell you if they do?

so we reckon it could be the brown relay in the fuse box?

nice one getting a bit closer now

cheers

 

There are 2 of those brown relays so try swapping them over

 

nice one cheers for the advice paul, give it a shot 2nite

 

Dont know if it helps, but my earths for the lights were complete gash, and they packed up completely.

Try taking a good earth point with fresh wire, and connecting directly to the earth of the lights - this will tell you if it is a bad earth.

9 out of 10 times, Ford wiring failures relate to bad earths.

JJ

 

cheers bud, think it mite be dodgey earth come to think of it as when i slammed my door they came on for a brief moment

are the lights on a looped circuit? do they share an earth? as they are both not working

 

The problem I had with my headlights was down to an earth fault. I had no dipped beam, no main beam (but I could flash it) and no washers and all of that was due to an earth from the switch being missing somewhere. We added a new earth to one of the pins and everything came back.

I had sidelights, dash lights etc though.

 

cheers bud

so wheres the earth for the headlights?!?? willit be one of the wires coming direct from the headlights i need to look at first of the actual switch by the steering wheel

 

There is an earth behind each headlight which might need cleaning up and there are 2 on the stalk because the headlights work on a switched earth.

 

cheers again paul

just been trying to figure it out now, this brown relay is it the small one in the top right corner of the fuse box? thats the only brown one in the fuse box

this is doing my tits in now

 

eh!!! just gone out now and tried the lights and they're working fine now n i haven't even touched them or done anything

gotta be wiring or bad earth then?