railroadjeep
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- Bothell, WA
I did some searching and didn't find anything really pertainting to this specific problem.
Tonight, my headlights shut off by themselves again. I jiggle the switch and the come on again (this is the 3rd or 4th time it's happened in about 5 months). A few miles later I lose my dash lights, then discover that the running lights aren't working either, but I still have headlights. I feel the switch is messed up, since you definalty feel somethings amiss in it, at least when rotating the dimmer feature. I also noticed before the dash lights went out that the switch felt a little warm.
Now, this will be the second switch in about 4 or 5 years on my 89' XJ. I'm probably just jumping the gun a bit, but I fear something worse may be going on, or am I just paranoid and the shop installed a not so good part?
I am thinking though, to get the load off the switch of installing a hi an low beam relay off the battery to take care of powering the headlights. But that's a whole other project.
Thanks!
Chris O.
Tonight, my headlights shut off by themselves again. I jiggle the switch and the come on again (this is the 3rd or 4th time it's happened in about 5 months). A few miles later I lose my dash lights, then discover that the running lights aren't working either, but I still have headlights. I feel the switch is messed up, since you definalty feel somethings amiss in it, at least when rotating the dimmer feature. I also noticed before the dash lights went out that the switch felt a little warm.
Now, this will be the second switch in about 4 or 5 years on my 89' XJ. I'm probably just jumping the gun a bit, but I fear something worse may be going on, or am I just paranoid and the shop installed a not so good part?
I am thinking though, to get the load off the switch of installing a hi an low beam relay off the battery to take care of powering the headlights. But that's a whole other project.
Thanks!
Chris O.