Silly Headlight Question..!

[Guest]

Gents
My heart is absolutely broken with Thomas at the minute....! In his '87 944 UK spec Turbo the headlights raise as soon as you put the sidelights on. They remain raised until you put the lights off. On my LHD US Spec the lights dont raise until you have the dips on and stay raised until you put the lights off.

He now wants his lights the same as mine.I havent looked at his car but the diagrams for the US and UK are the same for the headlight raising motor. Am I missing sommit....? Has somebody been meddling with his lights in the past....?

Do your lights act the same as mine or his...... Or what way should they operate......[:'(]

I know he just wants to run around with his lights down and the foglights on but he wont admit it... Bold boy....![]

 

[DavidL]

Donal,
There were some regs in the past that stated (for some reason) that this had to happen. They were subsequently reformed hence newer cars not doing it.
There is a fix which involves a few short lengths of wire and some connectors in the fuse box in place of one of the relays. My S has had this done which means that the lights only come up when main h/lights are on not the side lights. If you switch the h/lights off back to sidelights they stay up until everything is switched off.
Have a search or I imagine Clarks has a diagram - I recall Jon Mitchell informing us of the exact reasons why this happened in the not too distant past.

 

[xenon]

This was the ill-fated "dim dip" requirement between 87 and 90. Essentially instead of driving around with sidelights, which you shouldn't do as they're really only for parking, the powers that be decided that if the ignition is on and the sidelamps are on then the headlamps illuminate at half brightness. The idea of this was to reduce light pollution in cities. After a while someone decided that this was a bloody silly idea and it was dropped.

You car can be wired to work in the way you would like and there was a thread about it with diagrams. Tried searching?

 

[Hilux]

There was thread recently about this and John Sims posted details incl photos here

 

[Guest]

Thanks very much lads ... Really appreciate your help.... Seems that the dim-dip does not work in the car any way.

That damn dim-dip law strikes again [:'(]. I think that it was only in the UK that this was in force. I'll get that mod done and keep Thomas off my case........[]