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Old 29-09-2008, 07:58 AM   #1
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My headlights both highbeam and low beam are no longer working. It doesn't even display the highbeam light on the dash anymore. My parkers work though.

As well as that my A/C is no longer working.

As the A/C and headlight fuses are next to each other I'm thinking fuses but how do I check the fuses thay are solid and coloured?

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Old 29-09-2008, 08:24 AM   #2
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you might need to see if one of the bulbs have blown for the high/low beam as this could stop the other one from working, as for the air con check the gas maybe other than that a trip to a auto elec might be in order.
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Old 29-09-2008, 09:09 AM   #3
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You can check fuses visually. They are usually see through and you can see if the metal part has broken.

If its a relay, try putting a relay from another part of the car in there and testing it.
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Old 29-09-2008, 09:18 AM   #4
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You also had the ABS problem didn't you? Did that get sorted, if not I think you may have some pretty bad electrical dramas going on that would be causing all of this.
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Old 30-09-2008, 01:06 PM   #6
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I fixed the problem. Apparently the headlights are wired through the ABS fuse so a new ABS fuse got them working perfectly again.
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Old 30-09-2008, 01:35 PM   #7
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glad to hear you got it fixed, sleek the elite.

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