RE: HELP: Pass. side headlight bulb flickering?

["Neal Tovsen" <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>]

DEFINITELY sounds like a bad connection somewhere. It might not necessarily
be a bad ground, though. If it was a poor ground (too small of a wire) but
with good connections, it would make your lights dimmer than they should be,
but they wouldn't flicker on/off. There is a break in the line somewhere,
either at a connection or along a wire itself. It could be a positive or a
negaive wire.

After it gets dark, park the car and turn on the lights. Start wiggling
any/all of the wires coming from the headlight. If you don't find the
culprit, start following them back into the engine bay and eventually the
firewall. Keep going until you wiggle something that makes the light go on
or off. Resolder/reconnect/replace this wire.

Neal

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> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 8:25 PM
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> Subject: HELP: Pass. side headlight bulb flickering?
>
>
> The low beam on my pass. side european headlight is flickering on
> and off and
> sometimes wont even come on.  If i put the key in the ignition
> and turn it
> enough to be able to turn the headlights on the pass side won't
> come on.  It
> will only come on if the car is started.  Is it possible it has a
> bad ground?
>  I checked with a test light to see if the bulb itself is getting
> power and
> it is.  If it is the ground can i just make up a aux. ground wire?  The
> grounds are the brown wires right?  Please help me before i get
> pulled over
> or in a accident!
>
> Matt
> 84 8v  ''cyclops''
>
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