Headlight Help!!!!
#1
Headlight Help!!!!
My drivers side headlight on my 89 4x4 pickup is like a real dim dull yellow color when it is on high or low beam. I switched the bulbs same results so I ruled out the bad bulb. Does anyone have any suggestions? The passenger side works fine.
#2
Explained better with a schematic below.
The way Toyota wired it, when you put it in low-beam, some current (pink in schematic below) from good side will flow through the supposedly "unused" high-beam filaments of both bulbs to the filament of the side with busted fuse. Side with busted fuse will have lower voltage across it, so it will light up but dimly.
When you put it in high-beam similar thing happens, but this time "leakage" current will go through the supposedly "unused" low-beam filaments.
The supposedly unused filaments where leakage current flows through would actually glow, too but hard to notice.
Last edited by RAD4Runner; Jan 20, 2014 at 04:56 PM.
#4
RAD4Runner That was it replaced the fuse and it works now Thanks!
#5
RAD4Runner That was it replaced the fuse and it works now Thanks!
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