Reading John's amusing MOT story prompted me to post the following. I have just replaced the headlight units on my 1997 4/4. I took off the old ones with their rusty reflectors and let the lamps hang out to check all the bulbs while I had them easily to hand.
My headlight units have integral sidelights, a requirement when they leave the factory I believe. However, with the ignition off and sidelights selected only the nice ones on the wing tops came on, nothing happened in the headlamp unit bulbs. So I turned the ignition on and tested again, this time when I selected sidelights the wing top ones came on but so did the dipped beam H4 headlamp bulbs at a much reduced light level, but not the integral sidelights, they never came on at all. The way the H4 lamps lit up, faded up would be more accurate, I'd say they are on reduced voltage. In all the time I have had the car I've not noticed this, "turn'em on and drive, don't stare at 'em!". Are there voltage drop resistors and a relay somewhere under the bonnet or is my aging imagination playing tricks with me? Lawrence Very wet Dunfermline -----Original Message----- From: John Rutherford [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 2:16 PM To: mogtalk2 Subject: [mogtalk2] MoT time again This is the tenth time I've taken my Mog to our local garage, who really are most excellent (and old-fashioned) fettlers Today, the gaffer was clearly not wholly on-song Issue #1 (staring at head-lights) "John, your side lights aren't working" Me - Try looking up at the wings Graham! Issue #2 while levering up the wheel hubs "Are they meant to move up and down like this.?" Me - think sliding pillars Graham! Result, "Oh sod it, the bloody machine says I'm meant to take another half hour over this and I can't find anything else to check. Go home now and you can pick up the ticket in the morning" John Rutherford Address deleted to protect the innocent ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
