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idwoodvale

idwoodvale

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Hope you turbo owners can help. Can someone please tell me the sequence in which the headlights should come on when the switch is turned. In mine (restoration project) on first turn of the switch, the bumper side lights come on and the headlights pop up but do not light up. A further turn activates the headlights. I'm assuming I have an incorrect connection somewhere.

Also since I have had my Lux, when I try to flash full beam (with headlights off) I only manage to illuminate the road beneath me as the pods do not pop up. Don't know why I've not asked in 3 years of having it.
 
Mine is
1st click = sidelights in bumper. No pop-up.
2nd click = headlights (popped up)

I know some cars had the (at the time) obligatory "dim-dip" mode where headlights had to come on at reduced voltage when you selected side lights....... need someone with more knowledge to help you there [&:]

Your flash is normal ~ it just flashes the driving lights in the bumper (which normally come on with your main beam in the headlights). If you had to wait for the headlights to raise the flash function would be useless. [:)]
 
Ian,

My Lux headlamps functioned exactly as you described. It does seem a bit daft for the pods to come up at position I and yet not illuminate, but that is what mine did.

My Turbot pods come up at position I but at reduced output - the dim-dip mode as described. It is very annoying.

You can't "flash" your main lights when the pods are down as they couldn't flip up fast enough and a multiple flash would have them leaping about all over the place. I assume it is for this reason that Porsche flash the auxiliary lights.
 
sounds fishy to me.

on pos 1, my side lights in the bumper come on.
on pos 2, the lamps pop up, and the headlight switches on dip beam. (bumper lights remain on)
now, return to pos 1, and the pod stays up, but the headlight is turned off (bumper lights remain on)

when flashing on pos 1, the driving lamps flash (I've never studied it hard enough to see if the actual head lights flash either), whereas on pos 2, the headlamp flashes to main beam.

drop me a mail in the morning, and i'll send you a wiring diagram to check things out.
 
Mike,

While strange in concept, there is nothing fishy going off.

Your pods are functioning exactly as a late Turbo or S2 would. This is different to a Lux.

You are correct in that all 944s flash their main beam when the pods are up.

I am assuming that pre dim-dip headlamp Turbos (pre '88 model year) had lights that functioned as the Lux i.e. pods comes up at position I but main headlamps do not illuminate until position II.
 
maybe i'm just being silly, but why the difference? OK, the lux misses the 3-bulb driving lamp assy, but surely that's no decent excuse? (it is the "old" bumper style right?)
 
For a brief time around '88 they did you pod pop-up thing and dim dip. I suspect those that didn't dim-dip have had a relay removed but not had the function totally reversed. My '86 Turbo worked like all 4 '89 on cars I have owned in that the pod stays down until position 2 (and stays there when you go back to 1 to allow cleaning and access to the side screws for bulb changing).[FONT=verdana,geneva"] [FONT=verdana,geneva"]Search, there is a thread that was linked again very recently on how to alter the wiring to keep the pods down at position 1. Tony (944Turbo) made the crucial post with the instructions.[FONT=verdana,geneva"]
 
ORIGINAL: idwoodvale

Hope you turbo owners can help. Can someone please tell me the sequence in which the headlights should come on when the switch is turned. In mine (restoration project) on first turn of the switch, the bumper side lights come on and the headlights pop up but do not light up. A further turn activates the headlights. I'm assuming I have an incorrect connection somewhere.

Also since I have had my Lux, when I try to flash full beam (with headlights off) I only manage to illuminate the road beneath me as the pods do not pop up. Don't know why I've not asked in 3 years of having it.
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For 88 the turbo is correct for 1 or 2 years the pods came up with the sidelights.


On the lux 86 when you flash the headlights (with them off and down) the 'in bumper' lights should flash not the main units.

Tony
 
ORIGINAL: mik_ok

Your flash is normal ~ it just flashes the driving lights in the bumper (which normally come on with your main beam in the headlights). If you had to wait for the headlights to raise the flash function would be useless. [:)]
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the flash on my Prelude works by raising the headlights !
 
Other way round; they used to stay down, then they popped up for a year or 18 months, then they stayed down again. I don't think it was restricted to Turbos and S2s either but it was late in the life of the Lux.
 
Thanks everyone. Seems that they are working fine then at least on the turbo. However on the Lux i think that it's the pods that light up but remain down, hence light up the road beneath the engine! I'll have to check when it's back on the road........ Running on steam at the moment, think I've got a cylinder head gasket prob after much exclusion of hose leaks and new radiator. Turbo has blown a hose too.
 
The lights on our S2 pop-up on position 2 but go out and STAY UP if I switch back to side lights. They only go down when the lights are turned off.

I guess this is a hang over of the earlier pop-up unlit phase??[&:]

Lazza
 
No, that's so you can wash them and get at the screws at the sides to change the bulb without them having to be switched on.
 
ORIGINAL: idwoodvale

........ Running on steam at the moment, think I've got a cylinder head gasket prob after much exclusion of hose leaks and new radiator. Turbo has blown a hose too.
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Life with a 944 can never be considered boring. It's a constant run of "I wonder what I need to replace next?"
 
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