Highbeams

[e30medic]

I have a problem with my 318 . I am currently taking out all of the bad parts in the car . I have a problem where my regular lights wont work but my highbeams will. I then turned the highbeam insert into the regular so i have regular lights. so i have no highbeams. What can i do to fix???

[bichmgnt]

Did the low beams come on with the high beams? If they did (and I would guess they did) and the low beams alone didn't work I'd say it's the low beam relay.

Steve

[nando]

sounds like the bulbs are out to me. sealed beams have dual fillaments on the low beam for high/low. the lows can burn out leaving you with only highs.

and did you say you were using high beams as low beams? :shock: hope you don't blind an oncoming car and get killed..

[bichmgnt]

While that could be true I was assuming a single point of failure. It's less likely, although possible, that both lights are bad at the same time. I also figured he was running the current low beams on the high beam socket so (hopefully) the low beam filament was being used.

Steve

[kowalski]

could be the fuses, theres low beam and high beam fuses, so cheack those, also could be the switch in the cab, or the relay.