Headlight bulbs
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Re: Headlight bulbs
Just be super sure you align the tab on the bulbs correctly. The low and high beam bulbs are 180 degrees apart when placing them into the housing to match the tabs. If they are not seated correctly, you'll never be happy with the light pattern. So, one bulb tab goes north, the other south (in each housing). The other side is the same setup, one goes north, the other south (tab orientation).
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Re: Headlight bulbs
Just be super sure you align the tab on the bulbs correctly. The low and high beam bulbs are 180 degrees apart when placing them into the housing to match the tabs. If they are not seated correctly, you'll never be happy with the light pattern. So, one bulb tab goes north, the other south (in each housing). The other side is the same setup, one goes north, the other south (tab orientation).
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Re: Headlight bulbs
Great! This all makes it much easier to get it right the first time!
Re: Headlight bulbs
OK...installed new bulbs both sides...low and high beams work, but need major alignment upwards (is this normal?), and now the passing high beam toggling is not working. The forward toggle on the stalk to high beams works, showing the high beam indicator in the instrument cluster, but nothing happens when I pull back on the turn indicator stalk, either high beam or high beam light indicator.
Any thoughts out there?
Thanks
Thomas
Any thoughts out there?
Thanks
Thomas
Re: Headlight bulbs
OK...installed new bulbs both sides...low and high beams work, but need major alignment upwards (is this normal?), and now the passing high beam toggling is not working. The forward toggle on the stalk to high beams works, showing the high beam indicator in the instrument cluster, but nothing happens when I pull back on the turn indicator stalk, either high beam or high beam light indicator.
Any thoughts out there?
Thanks
Thomas
Any thoughts out there?
Thanks
Thomas
If the lights were OK before the bulb swirch they should still be OK.
Maybe the bulbs are not correctly in position?