Headlight HELP.....!

[PACE]

I was driving down a dark road when I decided to hit my high beams......They came on for one second then POOF....No lights at all....I went back to my low beams and they work fine....Here's the deal.....

Now when I have my lights ON they work fine....that is....low beams and fogs.....but when I hit the high beams instead of highs I get nothing.....I looked in my OM about what fuse may have blown but I can't find it.....

Anybody know what fuse or relay would control power going to high beams?..... If you have a service manual I would appreciate it if you looked at the pin-outs........Would one high beam filiment burning out kill the other light as well....like a series circuit?? I doubt it....

As a strange side result I have no DRL's during the day..... but no SVS light either.....:confused:

Damn high wattage bulbs!!!!:rage:

[Panacea]

The DRL's are the high beams, just at a lower wattage. As for both going out, I don't know why that would happen, it's possible that both filaments went bad?

Check your harness and make sure it didn't start melting. I know that people with higher wattage bulbs usually fry their wiring harness.

[PACE]

Both harnesses would have had to burn up at the exact same time......I doubt it very much....The way they went "POOF" it felt and sounded like a fuse or relay........But I dunno......I would think there was a fuse or relay named "High Beams" but there is not:confused:

[iceman]

just looked at the manual.. first check all your fuses/relays, underhood.

Try hitting the flash-to-pass or the high-beam on switch.. see if that works

After that there are things to test at the connector going to the stalk.. PITA if that's broken..

Dumb question but try a different headlamp bulb, it's possible I suppose.


As for the no SVS, so far all the 03's I heard of don't light an SVS with the DRLs killed.. go ahead and yank your drl relay :)

[PACE]

I did check the manual and all the fuses that sounded headlight related........How can you tell if a relay is fried????

Flash to pass no workie....

I guess I'll have to dig up my stock bulbs to do some tests......

EDIT: now I'm wondering if the people who pulled relay 22 for DRL's have high beams???

[RedGrandTour]

What kinda bulbs are you using?

[PACE]

Naxos 100/80 w

How can you tell if a relay is fried....I have never pulled one out....

EDIT: Just pulled Relay #22 so the DRL's will never come back....I took it apart too....crazy little buggers....not what I expected....Now if I could just get my high beams to come back on.......:mad:

[RedGrandTour]

I'm running some Euro 5200K 100/80w. I'm a little scared that something will go wrong. Did you ever use the brights?

[PACE]

Originally posted by ECAP
I was driving down a dark road when I decided to hit my high beams......They came on for one second then POOF....


Before that I had only used them for VERY brief periods to check their light displacement.

[Mikey's GT]

Originally posted by iceman
As for the no SVS, so far all the 03's I heard of don't light an SVS with the DRLs killed.. go ahead and yank your drl relay :)

Whats funny is that of course, mine had to be the only '03 I know of that pulling the damn relay does not work on. Figures, had to put a kit on it.

-Mike