Defender Extrem Main Headlight Switch Block

**CraigE** · 7th February 2006, 09:31 PM

The spotties are on a relay.
It was where the main power wire (brown) feed comes in and caused the two copper pins to recess into the poly block so they were not making contact. Have resined and soldered so it works for now. Just amazes me that the fuse, fusable link or wiring did not go first. i would have thought that the headlight power out (red wire) would have been the one to fail if anything being much lighter gauge.
Wiil use the wiring harness diagram and make a harness up thanks to Traxide.

tombraider · 8th February 2006, 07:37 AM

From ARB direct to my email box I received this Memo a few weeks ago.

Cheers Mike

TO: All ARB Distributors DATE: 02/12/2005

FROM: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

SUBJECT: Landrover Head Lamp Upgrades

Hello everyone,

It has come to our attention that the head lamp switch assemblies in Land Rover vehicles may not be able to handle any increase in the circuit loading. Upgrading from the standard 60/55 watt globes, without installing an ARB Modular Headlight Wiring Loom (M002) may cause the contacts in the switch to fail.

This does not only apply to our 110/80 globes which normally require a loom on any vehicle, but in this case it also applies to the X51 Fatboys as they run the Super Low Beam 80 watt filaments with a 60 watt high beam.

It does not apply to the M13 and M17 globes as they only consume the standard 60/55 watts, even though, like the fatboys, their lighting performance is much more than those power consumption figures would indicate.

Please also be aware that the genuine Land Rover switch assemblies are a very costly item to replace, and that ARB will not accept any non statutory liabilities for such switch failures where the loom has not been fitted.

Please make sure that all your sales staff are fully aware of this issue, and advise your customers accordingly when selling head lamp upgrades.

Our next price list will be updated with appropriate warnings for Land Rover owners.

Thanks and Kind Regards

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

National Customer Service Coordinator

**YRVGreen** · 8th February 2006, 08:18 AM

nice to see they added the kisses at the bottom
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What I dont get, is that since this is a LR prob why hasnt HLR sent warning out to us? It isnt like we are talking about RR or discos, These are Defenders, it is allmost implyed by the style of 4wd that we would be putting more lights on at some point,.. I am allmost suprised they dont come with flood light switches ready to plug your own lights into from the factory

**CraigE** · 11th February 2006, 01:30 AM

I can feel a generic Hella/Narva push pull unit rated a little better coming on with a Traxide plan harness coming on.
Has Traxide started making the kits yet?

**Michael2** · 11th February 2006, 05:31 AM

I was helping fit an aux. lighting switch (the one with the little orange light) to a TD5 wagon recently. The switch actually switches an earth relay and then has a feed coming in from the lights end of the relay with power to illuminate the little light. (5pin switch).

We couldn't figure it out for ages, then we googled the part no. and found someone elses dilemma on a German Land Rover chat room. We hit the translate button on the google search engine, and were then able to make out the meaning of the discussion. - Problem solved.

However since the switch was fitted by the LR Dealer, one must assume it was fitted correctly, or the wiring has been modified further down the loom.

-Michael2

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