'09 Headlight High Beam stopped working but Low Beam working ok - What the?

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Originally Posted by Robmacca

Now just to sort out why my interior light only works when u manually turn it on and not also when u open the doors but the alarm still works .....

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The auto side of the interior lights is driven by the security controller. If my experience is anything to go by, the previous owner has probably blown this output on the security system and hence no more auto interior lights.

My solution was to run a relay driven off the doors input (all 5 doors go to the one input) to the security system, this relay then drives the auto function of the interior lights.

Cheers Glen

NB, don't muck about with the green stuff, just cut it off. Take a look at the wires cause it can start to creep up those to. It's exactly like rust, if you leave the smallest amount it will self propagate.

From memory, white vinegar will start the job of cleaning the green stuff up. Electrical cleaner is usually isopropyl which is great for dirt and gum and it dries quickly, but it won't do too much for corrosion.

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Originally Posted by Grappler

Mine are blue wires with various stripes as per the diagram

Has yours had an upgrade? Maybe there is a relay added in that has failed?

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From your pics the wiring didnt look standard. Nothing worse than diagnosing non standard electrics in a vehicle

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Originally Posted by Dorian

The auto side of the interior lights is driven by the security controller. If my experience is anything to go by, the previous owner has probably blown this output on the security system and hence no more auto interior lights.

My solution was to run a relay driven off the doors input (all 5 doors go to the one input) to the security system, this relay then drives the auto function of the interior lights.

Cheers Glen
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Well, I had a look at the interior light today and thank the Lord, found out that the previous fella didn't slide the plug on properly and only one connection was making a connection - all good. Then I looked at the rear cargo light as it wasn't working either - hoping the same thing and to my surprise it was, again the plug wasn't installed properly.... Then it happen !!! As I was putting it all back together I made an error and shorted the positive and negative and popped the fuse. While the fuse was blown I put it all back together then looked for the fuse. Found it, replaced it, tested the lights - all good.... Then I started it and took it for a drive..... PROBLEMS

Immediately upon starting it up, something felt different. The 12v battery light remained "ON" on the dash and the accelerator felt different. The 12v battery light went out & I took it for a drive and it felt VERY different from its normal self. Being remapped it gets up and goes but this drove like it wasn't remapped at all, and the accelerator was behaving differently. After about a 20km drive nothing had changed so I stopped and checked the ScanGaugeII for Faults and found 2 fault codes listed: U0001 and U0155.

I have no idea whether these codes were pre-existing or not as I've never checked the SGII for faults. I cleared the faults, restarted the engine and fantastic - it appeared to be back to its normal self, driving wise and the response was back as well....

So, being new to these PUMAS, has anyone else ever popped an Interior light fuse before and experienced anything like I mentioned above?

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Originally Posted by Grappler

From your pics the wiring didnt look standard. Nothing worse than diagnosing non standard electrics in a vehicle

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I ended up finding the original Light plugs and they indeed did match up with the manual in regards to colour codes....

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Originally Posted by Grappler

From your pics the wiring didnt look standard. Nothing worse than diagnosing non standard electrics in a vehicle

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X2 bloody impossible.
and typical of (dare I say) a auto sparky place to fix the problem but NOT the cause. (unfortunately this is sometimes customer driven, as in they dont want to pay the extra time to find out why.)