High Beam Indicator Stays On?!?!?!
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From: North Florida
Thanks!
As many said here before me, it's a wrong ground.
Just opened my headlight to find the light-bulb socket was fried.
I replaced it and then the low light was very week and the headlight indicator light would light up very dim on low lights and regularly with the high beam.
Opened it up again and noticed I wired the socket incorrectly.
if your looking at the socket with the headlight connected and pointing away from you the wires from the back-end should go like this:
* Ground should go to the left side and not right.
* High beam + should go to the top.
* Low beam + should go to the right.
hooked it all back up, and no more problems
P.s - another symptom of this if you look closely at the headlight is that when your switch is set to low beam, both the bulb hot-wires light up. this is not how low and high beams work.
they should alternate: low beam only and High beam only should light up separately.
Hopes this helps
Adam
Just opened my headlight to find the light-bulb socket was fried.
I replaced it and then the low light was very week and the headlight indicator light would light up very dim on low lights and regularly with the high beam.
Opened it up again and noticed I wired the socket incorrectly.
if your looking at the socket with the headlight connected and pointing away from you the wires from the back-end should go like this:
* Ground should go to the left side and not right.
* High beam + should go to the top.
* Low beam + should go to the right.
hooked it all back up, and no more problems
P.s - another symptom of this if you look closely at the headlight is that when your switch is set to low beam, both the bulb hot-wires light up. this is not how low and high beams work.
they should alternate: low beam only and High beam only should light up separately.
Hopes this helps
Adam
Adam's post was EXACTLY what I needed! Thanks!
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