Thread: Urgent please I need to get it roadworthy tonight

Sounds like you have blown the main light switchDo you have relays in the light circuit).

First impression is that your parkers/headlamp switch might be cactus.

My limited exposure to 'Deefers etc is a switch near the beam change wand which feeds power to the parkers only, or parkers plus heads. The Beam-change stalk is just to switch either Hi or Lo.

Or if yours incorporates everything together, then chances are it's knackered.

Get access to it and wriggle wires, check with a test lamp...and by then someone with a lot more knowledge will have surfaced here.....

Yes probably the switch. You will find that it has melted the contact into the plastic. This is because the current runs through the switch and gets hot. Relays can cure this as the switch then only switches the relay on so it does not have the full current going through it. You may be able to drill the contacts out and put a small screw and nut on it to get it going. When you pull the switch out it will be obvious.

Have fun!

Originally Posted by Bearman

Sounds like you have blown the main light switchDo you have relays in the light circuit).

Gyro is about to learn the hard way, why 'everyone' advises headlight RELAYS...

Brand new light switch. Not sure whether there are relays, what's the easiest way to check?

To be clear you have a new light switch or HI LO switch?

Originally Posted by GyroLandy

I have a roadworthy booked for tomorrow morning and everything is working except the headlights. When I pull the stalk towards me the high beam shines including instrument panel light.

Otherwise the lights are dead on Dip and high Beam.

Please help!

...is the ignition turned on?

jc

Originally Posted by justinc

...is the ignition turned on?

jc

Thats a good point!