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Glad to hear it. The headlight relay is a change-over one that gets a pulse to change it when you pull the switch lever. Probably there is a poor connection in the circuit somewhere - maybe just a bit of oxidation that could have dispersed with some current flowing. If you changed the relay for a good new one, it does sound more like wiring or the switch contacts than the relay. Sometimes after a long period of inactivity, my joints get a bit intermittent too. ;-) Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Baum" <daniel@type34.info> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 6:38 AM Subject: Re: [T3] High beam problem... > Hi again, > > This last message of mine took about 12 hours to reach the list. > > I fixed the problem, or it fixed itself. I'm not quite sure what happened. > It MAY have been something to do with earthing of the relay, or it may have > been a Martians' nest in the fusebox. > > Anyway it's working now. > > > Daniel > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm back after rather a long holiday, and I have to take my car for its > test > > tomorrow. > > > > This evening I just went outside to check everything was OK. I tested all > > the electrical things and everything worked, until I tried the headlights. > I > > turned them on, and they came on OK, I then switched them to high beam and > > that worked OK, but then it wouldn't go back to low beam. At the moment > the > > headlights are stuck on high beam. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~