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Bluebird1999 Member Since: 05 Jan 2017 Location: Cumbria Posts: 103 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Driving home in the dark tonight I totally lost my headlights on both main beam and dip, I had to drive on fog lights.
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Bluebird1999 Member Since: 05 Jan 2017 Location: Cumbria Posts: 103 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Anybody please😊 64 plate TD4 SE
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SYFL2 Member Since: 16 Jun 2012 Location: Sheffield Posts: 2630 ![]() ![]() |
Have you swopped the relevant fuses ? |
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Bluebird1999 Member Since: 05 Jan 2017 Location: Cumbria Posts: 103 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I haven’t checked anything yet but I don’t think it will be fuse related, they were coming back on for a few minutes and then going off again. I’m going to remove the headlights shortly to see if the led units have caused overheating and damaged anything. 64 plate TD4 SE
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Badger51 Member Since: 01 Mar 2014 Location: Korora Posts: 1011 ![]() ![]() |
This would be worth trying.
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simong_uk Member Since: 31 Jan 2014 Location: Sutton Coldfield Posts: 146 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
if you say you fitted LED I assume they are a non-standard fit? First step put the original lamps back in (assume they are HB3 at that age) as they use a single filament/source for both dipped and main, so you would lose both functions in a single headlight from a single failure.
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jules Member Since: 13 Dec 2007 Location: The Wilds of Warwickshire Posts: 5431 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Overheating seems likely. The original bulbs have a short lifespan (prompting people to change to LEDs etc) because they overheat.
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Bluebird1999 Member Since: 05 Jan 2017 Location: Cumbria Posts: 103 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Thanks for the comments. I’ve actually put the Hb3 halogen bulbs back in now and left it running for over half an hour with no problems. A friend did an OBD scan for me and it showed intermittent faults with the left and right headlight circuit before I changed the bulbs back to standard and after running with the lights on it showed no circuit faults.
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Badger51 Member Since: 01 Mar 2014 Location: Korora Posts: 1011 ![]() ![]() |
You could always try looking.
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Bluebird1999 Member Since: 05 Jan 2017 Location: Cumbria Posts: 103 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Thanks, much appreciated 😊
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