Thread: Headlight / indicator switch problems?

Driving my TD5 at night yesterday and when I pulled the switch for high beam they came on momentarily, just as I had the switch pulled toward me, but as soon as I released it they went off completely - though the parkers remained on.

A very quick click restored low beam - whew! - dark night, plenty of roos out here and my night vision isn't that good! On the way home for a short while even low beam went out and I had to manually hold the switch back to get highbeam until I could pull over (there was a car coming the other way). Turned car off then on and low beam was back.

It permanent now. Highbeam will stay on if I hold the switch back, but when released they go out, so I've got low beam only.

Scouring the web it looks like the switch can fail suddenly. Is this likely - any alternative suggestions before I order a new switch?

Thanks

Willis

This arvo I pulled the switch out and pulled it apart - not to hard to do - bit of fiddling to get some of the components out - but this was because the cause of the problem was that the highbeam side of the little toggle switch had melted - kind of glueing it in.

Once out I eventually figured this out and filed away the excess melted plastic, reassembled and now it works again. Well, out of the car it does - will connect back up and see it it melts again - if so simply replacing the switch won't work and I'll have to look further.

Though if it was a short I would think the fuse(s) would blow. I noticed that in the toggle switch the high beam connector had been arcing a bit - maybe that caused the heating due to poor connection? Sorry should have taken photos of the process but in too much of a rush.....

best

Willis