I didnt think the parking lihgts should be wired off the headlights - the current draw is too much - you'll either blow fuses or "under voltage" the bulbs - which also cause them to burn out early. If yer really unlucky - car fire!
You'll need to rewire the parking lights the way they should have been done and check the headlight wiring. IMHO - the grounds probably finr - the wires are SWITCHED at the headlights (as per my description earlier) Also - I suspect some wierdness with the dash wiring (radio etc) as well. EWong --- Agrajag <[email protected]> wrote: > appears to be stock lighting with molested wiring. > there is wiring running > to the headlights, and then the parking lights are > rigged off of them with > seperate wires and "wire nuts". I'm thinking that > the ground is trash, and > I just need to rip things apart and wire them back > together. > > -John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed Wong" <[email protected]> > To: "Agrajag" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 5:36 PM > Subject: electrical problems > > > > >> > > 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/ > __________________________________________________ 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
