My wife drives a 1999 ford escort and has been having a problem with the passenger side headlight. The ground wire (black color) has been heating up and gets hot enough to melt the plastic connecting socket and the wire insulation--sometimes the bulb will fry. The other wires are fine. I am on my third headlight harness. I have made sure that the connecting socket is tight, used electric grease, checked for corrosion and made sure the ground is good. It never blows any fuses. I am stumped as to why a ground wire would heat up like this. THe car was wrecked on the same side by the previous owner. Is there anyway I can isolate the ciruit to the light so this doesnt happen? I dont want to have to chase around the main wiring harness. Relays?
99 Ford Escort Headlight Problem
Apr 10, 2005
4 Replies
run a smaller guage ( thicker) ground wire check headlite switch btw after market connectors have smaller guage ground do volt drop test on ground side
hurc ast
"tom" wrote: > ignore the asshole that gives out wrong advice that this week > is going by > the name hurricane. > check your ground wire where it connects to the body it may be > primed in the > area, and you are not getting a good ground. this will cause > the wire to > heat up. also check for a short in the wires. also, are do you > have stock > light bulbs, or aftermarket high intensity bulbs?? > the high intensity bulbs use more power, and need a relay > setup in the power > lines. > wrote in message > news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com... > > On 9 Apr 2005 21:27:49 -0400, 99fordescort > > < snipped-for-privacy@AutoForumz.com> wrote: > >
Regular stock DOT bulbs here.
because of the wreck it might be a ground problem at the "stock" location. Try grounding the wire somewhere else.
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