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Old Feb 4, 2023 | 08:36 PM
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Headlight upgrade problem

Anyone done the headlight upgrade and have issues with them not dimming ? I done it and built a new harness but cannot get them to dim without pushing my light switch back to parking lights then back to headlight on. I have replaced the headlight switch and dimmer switch with no difference. It acts as though I am getting a back feed. This is the diagram I used.

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Old Feb 18, 2023 | 05:59 PM
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Re: Headlight upgrade problem

I just wanted to follow up and say I resolved my issue. I woke up the other night at 2a.m and it came to me I wasn’t feeding my headlights through the factory switch and wiring anymore since doing the upgrade. After doing some digging and tracing wires I realized I was feeding both sides of my coil in the fog light relay, one side off the headlight/parking light signal and the other side off of the high beam signal. I just unpinned the high beam signal and added a ground to that pin on the relay. I know have working headlights and fog/driving lights. I also like that my fog/driving lights will operate with both high and low beams/parking lights.
Hopefully this will help someone else.
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