antispin

Hi all,

I have a strange issue.

2004 Taco

Recently, my low beam setting has stopped working all together. Oddly, when I switch to my high beams, they are now only shooting my low beam lights. I searched a bit around multiple forums and found that this might be caused by a short of the connection within the steering column so I pulled the wheel off and took a look but I dont see any signs of overheating or disruption.

Can anyone else think of a reason why this would happen?

rattlewagon

SOunds like a bad ground.

Are your high really on the LOW beams now? Or are your high beams just dimmer.

antispin

Im pretty sure they are coming through as my Low beams. But I suppose I cant be 100% sure on that because I don't have a comparison.

I know that my low beams are not any dimmer, they are completely off. But my running lights seem to be working fine :-/

wyoming9

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Have you checked what is going on at the plug for the bulb to see if you have system voltage in both the high and low beams

I just had the issue where enough brine got up in there and corroded the connection .

Unless your head light switch is broken either mechanical or electrical damage it can`t happen like you are telling us.

antispin

Im a bit shamed to say that this problem was indeed fixed by changing out both the bulbs.

The perfect storm of them going out at the same time, not looking like they were blown, AND the high beams also somehow affected by this led me to believe that it was a much bigger deal than it was.

Thank you guys for your comments, they did make me rethink my assessment and eventually find the problem.