>> I have found a lot of what I consider to be = "engineered" wiring on the car. There is a seperate wire running to the = ignition switch. The front parking lights are rigged with twist offs = from the headlights. I have no clue with the radio. am I going to have = to take it in for a new wiring harness? <<
Therein lies yer problem - the "engineered" (most likely WRONG) wiring. I know that headlights get weird (they dont work the way I "thought" they would). This is gonna sound like a royal PITA, but... ID all the "extra" wires. Determine what they are trying to run. REMOVE ALL EXTRA WIRE and start from scratch. Even if you got a "new" harness (at $$$) you'd end up doing the same thing. Get a BENTLY manal. Get a good high impedence DVM. (Fluke) Get Clip leads. Find an "EE" friend. Start ripping stuff out and rebuilding it correctly. Just some thoughts... The headlingts have three wires, a "common" ground, and a voltage to be applied to the high and the low beams. If ya wire one ground to the wrong pole (aka swap the ground and the hi for example) then you'll get some weird symptoms. What happens is that the current is supposed to run through only ONE fialament, but has to run through BOTH to get to a "ground" (actually its the other way around - thank Ben Franklin for that mess) Thus "both" lights are kinda on. When you do switch on the high - then there is voltage at the "middle" (in between the two filaments) and since the "top" (across both filaments) voltage has had some drop (across one fialamet) this allows the "middle" to add a bit of current to the "lower" filament (the bottom being where the ground is). So it gets a bit brighter, but not by much. The buls burn out becuase they wer NOT designed to handle the heat of BOTH filaments being lit. Um - are their any extra lights wired in (aka Fogs or a 16v dual light conversion)? Or did the previous molestor/owner simply wire the headlights (and alot else) wrong? EWong __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
