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chuckles
03-24-2003, 06:45 PM
ok, i have the tri lamp headlights. the harness that revolutions sent to me has the ground wires spliced together and then going into the harness (spliced because now the driving light and the high beam are separate bulbs). the problem is that when i turn my lights on the high beam indicator is always on, and the highbeams are not high at all actually it looks like the two bulbs are barely lighting up the the enclosure that they are in.

Am i correct to think that if i cut the point where the wires are spilced and ground the other side to the engine bay that i'll be ok?

Mulder
03-24-2003, 07:31 PM
Just which lights are these- are they the $150 ones or something else?
There is no "ground", the headlight wiring is common positive, switched ground. If these are the cheap lights they are all wired incorrectly and the common is swapped with one of the switched leads.

chuckles
03-25-2003, 10:00 AM
yeah, they are the cheap lights... if they are all wired wrong then how do i fix it?

Mulder
03-25-2003, 10:38 AM
The last person I know of who had this problem had to swap the black (two wires) with the white at the headlight connector. The wire colors have changed on these lights so yours could be different. The important thing is to get the right wires in the right positions on the connector. The black(s) should be in the center for the common positive, and the other two are the switched grounds for low and high.

chuckles
03-25-2003, 02:10 PM
ok, so the center is the common positive? and the others are the switched grounds?

that still makes me wonder why i get a constant high beam indicator on my dash?

Mulder
03-25-2003, 02:25 PM
The high beam circuit is being energized through the crossed wiring. It will go away once the wiring is corrected.
Yes the center is common positive.

WRXTASY_MN
03-25-2003, 08:14 PM
Chuckles, I had the exact same problem. Mulder is "Da Man" who helped me out too. All you have to do is swap the 2 black wires with the single white wire. They will work AOK after that.



So if you're looking at the harness with the locking clip up, the wire should be as follows.....Blue "on left", Black "in middle", and White "on right".



The high beam indicator will go off, and you're lights will be "BRIGHT"!!!


Good luck!!:cool:

chuckles
03-26-2003, 10:02 AM
ok, i'm gonna do that today at work.

Mulder, thank you.