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 Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 5:12 am |
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Joined: Nov 29, 2012
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Location: Coventry
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Just yesterday I noticed that the normal driving (dipped beam) on my passenger side was not working, so I thought ........ ah yes that will be a bulb gone (simple me thinks) so of I pop to halfords and pick up 2 x H7 12v 80w ice blue type bulbs thinking well if I have to change one may aswell change the two, so onward I go removing back rubber cover, unclipping wiring connector (realising not alot of room to move with man like hands), proceeded to manage to unclip bulb holding spring, and then removing bulb, brilliant I thought that was not difficult, now to put new bulb in be extra careful not to touch bulb lense with fingers, and then proceed to put all back together, anyway a long story cut short cause I am starting to bore myself, once all back together i switch on lights thinking a small sense of achievement, but only to look at the front of my car and still no normal driving light working, I have tried fiddling with the wiring connector to check it is pushed on properly but no change, so I am not sure what I have done or need to check, any ideas guys, any of you had the same problem, cause I do want to try to put the new bulb in the other side in case the same thing happens and I then have both dipped beams not working.
Cheers pete
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 5:19 am |
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 5:26 am |
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Joined: Oct 10, 2012
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Saw someone mention on here different fuses for each light? Main, Dipped, Side etc? not 100% sure worth checking though.
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 6:07 am |
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:10 am |
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look for the fuse on the positive wire to the battery from the morettes.
Mayeven be a cable has unplugged or rusted up so s**t contact.
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:53 am |
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Trust me from personal experience it'll be fuse 9 under the bonnet for the drivers side dipped beam so 10 for the passenger
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:12 am |
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Location: Coventry
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Thanks for the help guys but all good now as after checking all of the above advice but to no avail went and took it to a mate that checked all of the above again and then just by putting in a 55w bulb and not the 80w that I had in then it worked apparently the max bulb wattage you can put in is 70w anything higher and it does not work, boy do I feel a right tit ........ DOH! !!!!! but thanks for the help guys 
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:58 am |
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| motormania007 wrote: |
| Thanks for the help guys but all good now as after checking all of the above advice but to no avail went and took it to a mate that checked all of the above again and then just by putting in a 55w bulb and not the 80w that I had in then it worked apparently the max bulb wattage you can put in is 70w anything higher and it does not work, boy do I feel a right tit ........ DOH! !!!!! but thanks for the help guys |
Don't know about that, you'd blow a fuse before anything else.
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 1:07 pm |
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I wouldn't bother sticking a bulb bigger than 55w in anyway because it's probably not 'e' marked and is only sold for off road use.
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 7:56 am |
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Hi, newbie joined today so please be gentle!
Was hoping this thread would solve my same problem but the cause seems different. Passenger side dipped headlight gone (full beam OK) - my immediate reaction - buy a new bulb from Halfords for £10, figure out from the manual how to change it. No joy after changing. Must be the fuse - go to Halfords, again, get fuses. Still no joy. Have now investigated a bit more with a meter and there is no power getting to the fuse. Doesn't seem to be anything obvious as to why.
Before I waste even more time and money and now garage fees be grateful for any thoughts that might help.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:52 am |
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Was it working before or suddenly gone out?
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:45 am |
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Thanks for the reply - wife noticed suddenly she couldn't see properly at night!
Took it to a garage yesterday to look at and also to do the MOT which typically was due just as this problem occurred. Was working fine for them and the MOT people - so all good for the MOT pass. Then it didn't work again when I picked it up so they had a last minute fiddle during which time it worked for a second and then the new bulb blew. One new bulb again later and it's fine again.
Doesn't explain why there wasn't power getting to the fuse previously so I expect the root cause still isn't solved, but fingers crossed! I read of other people having odd temporary headlight problems so maybe it's a part of the 206 pysche.
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:44 am |
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It depends on how its there wired to the car. You'll have a different connection on a h7 wiring to a h4 wiring set up. What year is the car? Did it come with morrettes?
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:43 am |
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Hi - sorry for dely replying. It's a Nov 2005 model. Don't believe Morettes (had to google the term - double light style which is not mine).
The manual is confusing but indicates that the left dipped headlight fuse is no 9 (had no power) and right dipped headlight, number 10. Number 10 did have power and when fuse removed the right headlight went off - so I assumed I was right in my thinking for fuse 9 as well. If fuse number 9 isn't the left headlight then I was completely barking up the wrong tree!
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:44 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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So have you fixed it?
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