Thread: no headlights

Originally Posted by mudder110

thanks all will get a test light tomorrow

Hi mudder and under no circumstances use a test light.

Get a digital multi meter. You can buy a cheap one for around $10.

The use of test lights should have been band when safety air bags were introduced.

If you have the ignition on and touch the wrong wire with a test light probe, you can trigger the safety air bag system, and if you happen to be in front of the steering wheel at the time, the results can and have been fatal.

There have been a number of deaths in the US and quite a few injured here caused by people accidentally triggering of the safety air bag system while using a test light.

A digital multi meter will not trigger the safety air bag system if you test the wrong wire.

what SRS airbag, tis a defender... (and a tdi deefer at that)

get both, a test lamp wont show phantom voltages.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

what SRS airbag, tis a defender... (and a tdi deefer at that)

Hi Dave and I thought the later defs had a steering wheel SRS, but I have not taken much notice.

Thanks for the info.

hi all thanks for all the help still having no luck have tried two different switches found two melted 7.5 amp fuses under the passengers seat in the small box replaced them no differance thinking maybe should replace the high beam switch

Originally Posted by mudder110

hi all thanks for all the help still having no luck have tried two different switches found two melted 7.5 amp fuses under the passengers seat in the small box replaced them no differance thinking maybe should replace the high beam switch

But yourself a cheap multi meter and follow the 12v.

You'll need to pull off the steering column plastic shroud to get access.

Find it (12v) before the switch - there's a permenant live and a switched live. Switched for headlights, permenant for side lights.

Follow those lives through the switch and to the high beam switch. I think youll find that's where the trail dies.

Re the fuses, suspect they will be the LHS and RHS circuits, from memory they are seperated. You should be able to confirm what the blown fuses are by referencing the diagram on the fuse box cover.

I'm pretty sure your wiring will not be at fault, much more likely the hi beam switch given that you've already tried the off-on-on switch.

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Originally Posted by Yorkshire_Jon

But yourself a cheap multi meter and follow the 12v.

You'll need to pull off the steering column plastic shroud to get access.

Find it (12v) before the switch - there's a permenant live and a switched live. Switched for headlights, permenant for side lights.

Follow those lives through the switch and to the high beam switch. I think youll find that's where the trail dies.

Re the fuses, suspect they will be the LHS and RHS circuits, from memory they are seperated. You should be able to confirm what the blown fuses are by referencing the diagram on the fuse box cover.

I'm pretty sure your wiring will not be at fault, much more likely the hi beam switch given that you've already tried the off-on-on switch.

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Just thinking again about the 2 x 7.5A fuses that have blown. Is that the right size for the position they are in? Reference the fuse box holder diagram.

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Tim,do you make a light kit for the limited edition defenders with seperate low/high beam lights?. Pat