Mk2 upgraded headlight loom (problems!)

[jezza16v]

I'm impressed with your persistance and methodical approach to problem solving, just shows that patience can be rewarding....... ..........I think I'd have torched it.........

[plasticfantastic]

I'm impressed with your persistance and methodical approach to problem solving, just shows that patience can be rewarding....... ..........I think I'd have torched it.........

haha, cheers for that!

believe me i spat the dummy a few times. so did she, decided to go for a drive, she decided the drivers door handle doesn't need to work!

why is it when you fix one thing another breaks?! i guess its all in the fun and why we love these cars, plus i did have a very silly grin on my fave as the rev needle bounced over the top of the rev counter!!

jezza16v, glad you finally got your clocks sorted! (reminds me i have to find out why my speedo decided to stop too!)

cheers

[jezza16v]

I'm impressed with your persistance and methodical approach to problem solving, just shows that patience can be rewarding....... ..........I think I'd have torched it.........

jezza16v, glad you finally got your clocks sorted! (reminds me i have to find out why my speedo decided to stop too!)

cheers

Ha! You haven't read my latest post on the clocks saga have you?..........

[JMallows]

some bulbs may act diffrently to other's   best option is then to leave a link pokeing out  so you can allways disconnect it.   all i can say is i havent had a fail yet.

the dip beam dose help light up just infrount of the car much better,   and i like to tweek the spots for a bit more distance and as said  fogs light the hedges.    may sound odd but i'll make sense if you do loads of night driveing down small lanes.    

as foe power cabels  i looked at that,  i used 2.5 mm2,    that has no problem dealing with 18A,   2.5 is rated for 25A  at least normaly and dont get much volt drop at all

Lol, i live in Mid Wales, i have no neighbours, and road is about 1 car width plus 6inches - for about three miles. I do lots of fast driving down country lanes at night! Great fun All i have is single headlamps, and big bumper fogs, and i find the fogs light up where the dipped beam were, though i see what you mean about the adjustment of yours. Got a night picture of the light output?

[JMallows]

Hi all,

well an entire day of head scratching, soldering and relay bashing was had today! with an almost successful ending.

so far the list of problems was:

a green plug to the front indicator, now cleaned up and working fine!

the horn plug was wired directly to earth rather than the switched earth,

when i refitted the light stalk, one of the spade conectors bent to the side instead of going in, this caused all manner of odd issues!

after fixing that one the dim dip resistor really started to mess things up (i'd had been taking it in and out a few times, before fixing the stalk it actually made it work better with it on!)

also now i have stripped back all the relays and replaced with six 4 pole relays and now just have them to do dip, main and fogs seperately all was working fine for the test. then took the loom back out of the car, finished up the soldering and loom wrapping. It's now back in the car, but only the drivers side has decided to work, but when i wiggled the relays the passenger side flashed up so im pretty sure its all ok i just have to find the dodgy connection before sinking them in resin tomorrow!

I had enough by this point and while it was still sunny and now she was taxed i took her out for her first propper drive, did about 20 miles and she behaved brilliantly, very smooth power delivery and loads of torgue!

im pretty sure ill have her all sorted tomorrow, i'll keep you posted!

cheers

Now you have this sorted, i wont hurry to do a diagram, as have been busy working late etc... but i will do one for you

[plasticfantastic]

Wicked cheers!

Where in mid wales are you? is that elan valley in you sig?!

[plasticfantastic]

She's all sorted now!

found another dodgy relay, replaced, and all is perfect. im now only using 4 relays, 1 for fogs, 1 for dip and 2 for main beam. after a bit of country lane action earlier my new lights are fantastic, no more orange glow from the front of my golf, brilliant white light. best i hae seen from standard 60w bulbs!

only mod i might make is still to get the dip on with main beam, then ill sink them into resin!

i'll try and get a pic of them lit up soon

cheers for all your help guys!

[JMallows]

Wicked cheers!

Where in mid wales are you? is that elan valley in you sig?!

I'm near Aberystwyth, about 7miles out. Near Blaenplwyf actually. It certainly is Elan valley, on the Rhayader mountain road, just at the top of the valley.

[plasticfantastic]

cool, im just outside lampeter, nice to know there a few fellow dubbers in the hills!

[JMallows]

Anyway, here is what i have done.

Went from:

Which often flickered etc due to dodgy connections etc...
To this:



The wiring is the same as yours, except i use the two fogs - one for dip and one for high beam - both triggered from the factory loom. This is the same on both sides. Then, on one connection, i take a second trigger from the original factory high beam wire, and run this to a box in the bumper with one relay for both fog lights, and a relay for the horn.