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Taaaaaaahoe? Enthusiast

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So i noticed the other day I have no front left headlamp.. Figured, s**t bulb is out. SO I went and got a new bulb....

 

Nothing, still out! Checked fuse under the hood, fine.. Everything else works fine..High beams, fogs etc.

 

 

Please help!!

 

MIKE

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I guess I could fint my volt meter and see if the wires are getting any juice. Is it a chance where the wires hit the sockets could be bad?

 

I have not done anything to cause this problem, no upgrades etc... SO i dono!?

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Okay,

not to sound dumb, but I am assuming I want to probe the socket with the meeter and see if there is voltage? Can't I assume there is not any for...the bulb does not light up?

 

I was thinking I would probe into the wires just before the socket which would tell me if the socket is bad.

 

ANy other suggestions where to look?

 

THanks guys

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possibility of another bad bulb. try switching the passenger and driver side and see if the problem is the same. the the non working light is on the other side then there is your problem. If not then there is a short in the wire some where. I cant tell you where but thats where the volt meter comes in handy. Follow the low beam wire (dark green I believe) all the way to the fuse block and see if there is a short or break in the wire.

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not to sound dumb, but I am assuming I want to probe the socket with the meeter and see if there is voltage?  Can't I assume there is not any for...the bulb does not light up?

 

 

 

 

No, you cannot assume that. You may have lost the ground. It's not a real complicated wiring setup, but the first step is to find out whether you have lost power or ground to the socket. Knowing that will eliminate half of the wiring and control part for that light.

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Okay,

Does anyone know what color wire on there is the ground? ..i have not looked, it may be black" but figured I'd ask.

 

So I will probe the ground to some metal and look for continunity, same with power...but probe it to a power source?

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possibility of another bad bulb.  try switching the passenger and driver side and see if the problem is the same.  the the non working light is on the other side then there is your problem.  If not then there is a short in the wire some where.  I cant tell you where but thats where the volt meter comes in handy.  Follow the low beam wire (dark green I believe) all the way to the fuse block and see if there is a short or break in the wire.

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I did think of that. The package had 2 bulbs in it so I tried the other new one too, and it did not work. Now unless BOTH new ones were bad...Well I guess weirder things could happen. but they looked okay. I guess I could swap the one from the other side to elimintate it.

 

Prob easier to hit it with the meter and see if there is juice first.

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Does anyone know what color wire on there is the ground?  ..i have not looked, it may be black" but figured I'd ask.

 

Power to the socket is orange. Ground, believe it or not, is yellow on the low beam and purple on the high beam.

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Does the 01's have a groung trigger switch, my 02 had two wires hot going to the light socket hit the switch and one changed to a ground

 

Check your relays under the hood fuse box Water might have got in there

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Does the 01's have a groung  trigger switch, my 02 had two wires hot going to the light socket  hit the switch and one changed to a ground

 

Check your relays under the hood fuse box Water might have got in there

 

 

 

 

 

How would I know if it was bad? Also I dont remember seeing one for the headlamps in the manual..

Could be wrong!

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Getting a power and ground check is like pulling teeth, it seems. :banghead:

 

The power for ALL the headlights, both high and low, left and right, are supplied by ONE relay. And, the power for the left high/low beams are on one fuse and the right high/low beams are on another fuse.

 

Soooooo.... it ain't a fuse or the relay. If it was the relay, you'd have NO headlights. Not high beams, not low beams, not left or right. If it was just one of the two fuses, one whole side would be out, both high and low beams.

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I would begin by checking for voltage at the socket. If you find a bad ground, follow the wire and see if it is broken. My bet is with the ground, if the hot wire was broken, the fuse would be blown. Either the socket or the ground is bad. Just my opnion.

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Soooooooooooo

 

Guys, I HATE TO ADMIT THIS! BUT I AM THE JACKASS OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Sooo here is the deal.

 

I bought the low beam bulbs, 9006... I am at a gas station and decide to pop my new bulb in. So i take off the lens, pop out the light...throw it in the garbage... to realize, s**t I have the wrong bulbs, for my new one did not fit. Well assuming that bulb was still trash I left there, in the trash.

 

Get the new bulbs 9005s and replace them. Well this whole FREAKING TIME I was playing with the HIGH beams. SO yeah I had the right bulb to behin with but was looking at the wrong lens. It all made sense to me when the socket had 12+ volts to it!

 

I am a freaking idiot....Funny part is this is SO something I would make fun of others for, and not something I would do at all! Guess I just got a lot on my mind..

 

None the less now I have Silverstars on both high and low beams...

 

THanks for all the help...and feel free to banter me!! :D:tear::banghead:

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