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Diesel · Guest

when you turn the parking lights on? I think it looks awful to have the 2 unburning headlights up when you've got your parking lights on. Is this a glitch in my car or are they supposed to be that way?

Peter_in_AU · Joined: 29 Jul 2001 Posts: 2743 Location: Sydney, Australia

if you mean that you move the switch from off to park and the main lights pop up then you probably have a problem with the connections at your light switch or the switch contacts are sloppy allowing it to over-shoot the park position.

If you switch from main lights to park then the lights won't go down - they do that when the switch goes to the off position so to go from main to park and drop the pop ups you need to switch to the off position then back to park.

If you switch everything off then move the indicator lever up or down the park lights will come on on one side when you take the key out - that way you can leave the car for 2 hours rather than 1 before the battery goes flat

924RACR · Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 10:55 pm Post subject:

Not quite - there are some variances between the years and depending on the market where the car was delivered. What you describe sounds correct for that year. You could rewire the headlight switch to overcome this. I did. It's a matter of switching the motor power lead over to the lead that turns on the headlights themselves. Likewise, when you switch off the main beams to parking lights only, the headlights will drop. Use a relay, though, for the motor lead, or risk melting the headlight switch. I did this (both the rewire and the melted switch) on my '77.5. Of course, I also had a high-output H4 conversion.

My '82 931 functions as Peter describes.

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Diesel · Guest

Lights go up normal and smooth whenever you choose park or main lights. They STAY up when you go from main lights to park. They go down in the off position.

Smoothie · Guest

Mine work like Peter's also. One click on, you just get parking lights, the second click brings up the headlights and turns them on, one click back, the headlights stay up, but shut off and the park lights stay on, then all the way off, headlights lower and they're all off. ('82 924T)

Vince Ponz · Guest

I think Performance products has a fix for it. Switch wires and when you put on the park lights the headlights do not come on. When you turn the headlights on then they are both on. Cheap fix. I have the directions somewhere.

Vince

924RACR · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 2:56 am Post subject:

Screw that, you don't need to pay money to rewire your car... just go to Radio Shack and buy wires and connectors, at worst case...

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SpiNko · Guest

Diesel, for a 78, I think this is the norm. My car does the same. I have to agree that it looks goofy, like your headlight motor is shot.

Joes924 · Guest

mine doesnt do that if it did id stop it.

John Brown · Guest

Diesel. Residing in Conn shouldn't you be using a S&W antitheft device? Where's your patritotic spirit man?!

Diesel · Guest

Actually, S+W is in Springfield Mass. I have a couple of their revolvers that were given to me by a relative. They seem OK, but their autoloaders are heavy, unreliable, too expensive and ugly. Throw in the fact that they were owned by a British company when they bent over for the Clinton administrations extortion ploy and it doesn't look like I'll be buying any of their products in the future either. It's too bad, I wanted to try some of that salsa they're making.