Headlight combo switch issues - or relay?

[Apm83]

Evening all,
Wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction, having bit of grief on the parents Vit/Escudo - highbeam does not work on headlights, but will work if you pull back to 'flash' highbeams.

I've done a little reading and found it may be either a relay or the switch itself.
Can't find the relay..... can anyone suggest where it may be.

Cheers - appreciated.

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[kbushnz]

My Nissan car used to play up in the headlight dept.
Would work on the flash.. but not on the normal switch.
ended up being the switch, carbon-ed up.
Didn't have relays..All the current went thru the switch...
Probably why it used to carbon up.

Calvin

[kernels]

Hi Apm,

I couldn't guarantee it, but would bet a biscuit that it would use the same relay for "ON" and "Flash", so I would definitely suspect the switch first. Not sure if the switch cluster is a sealed unit, but either way you can get some contact cleaner in a can, spray it inside the switch on the contacts and it will probably work fine again. I took apart and cleaned the contacts in the wife's golf's reverse light switch a few weekends ago when it died, and that wasn't meant to be serviceable either.

Good luck
Hein

[Apm83]

Hi Apm,

I couldn't guarantee it, but would bet a biscuit that it would use the same relay for "ON" and "Flash", so I would definitely suspect the switch first. Not sure if the switch cluster is a sealed unit, but either way you can get some contact cleaner in a can, spray it inside the switch on the contacts and it will probably work fine again. I took apart and cleaned the contacts in the wife's golf's reverse light switch a few weekends ago when it died, and that wasn't meant to be serviceable either.

Good luck
Hein

Me thinks you are the winner!
Suddenly started working again - dodgy contacts I'm thinking.

cheers guys