Good Evening,

I was sitting with my parking lights on waiting for my son to finish violin practice. When we got ready to go I turned the lights on, and they stayed on a second and went out. I tried turning the knob several times with no luck. I did discover that going from dim to high beam, that the lights work on high beam, but not low beam. I don't know if I should start with the steering column, or buy new headlights thinking that these are dead on dim. Sure would appreciate any suggestions.

Hugh Sr

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i had a similar problem with my 81, kept blowing fuses but the highbeam worked? did u check fuse?

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Well, I didn't think about that - thanks, I'll check that out tomorrow

Hugh Sr

Try wiggling your turn signal stalk and see if they come on. You may need to replace that part.

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id be interested to see if it was a simple fuse. mine for my left lowbeam kept burning out, but the highbeam worked, i eneded up having to change the headlamp due to a short.

nobody seemed to hear of this ever happening. keep us posted

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I checked he fuses a few minutes ago, and none were blown. I noticed that there was a fuse for the left & right high beam, but no low beam.

Hugh Sr

IVfuzzy- same thing happened to me last week- low beam inmy drivers side went out, but all others were good. I had a new spare, and that fixed it, but I had ordered a standard replacement bulb, and had two halogens in there previously. Go figure. But I'm legal, anyway. i thought the low beam element just went out on the old one.

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interseting, did u check the turn signal switch, or for power coming from the switch?

seems funky to me, did u try to spin the fuses around maybe they lost contact somewheres?

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