Headlight question

Aug 30, 2006 2 Replies
J

My 1986 Nissan D21 Pickup has suddenly developed a problem where the headlights won't come on (even though the park lights do and the dash lights work and the headlight switch *seems* to function normally). The strange thing is that the high beams work fine but when I flip the switch back to low beam, no lights. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Just wondering if there's a relay associated with the headlights that might be an easy-to-swap-out item. This problem happened all of a sudden one day and the lights don't visually appear to have anything wrong with them.



thanks for any help,



John



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R

I can think of 3 probable points of failure: the switch , a relay or (the most common) the lights themselves, sometimes the lights low beam filament burns out while the high beam still works, as the low beam is used a lot more, but i don't remember seeing both of them going at same time (but it can happen though). If you have a multimeter (any cheap one will do) you can check if you receive voltage at the lights terminal, if you do then the lightbulb is burned out. Or have a mechanic check it.

Good luck

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K

Don't know if this applies...

My '97 Quest had no right headlight unless the "passing beam" was selected. Replacing the high beam switch in the steering column fixed the problem.

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