Front dipped head lights

[brian0389]

:yes:Front day running lights not coming on all other lights working ,any one got any idea why ,thanks brian

 

[Bob Denman]

I don't think that we've got those lights on ours. Do you have a picture of them that you could post?
I'd first check the fuses and relays...
then the wiring to them...
finally the bulbs...
Please let us know what you find, and the best of luck to you! :thumbup:

 

[Grandpa Pete]

I agree with Bob

 

[rollingstone]

I think ours in Australia are the same as the UK models. Our low beam is what you have as fog lights in USA and high beam is the upper pair of lights; if we want fog lights we have to buy and fit our own. The thing about this arrangement that is truly weird is that when you turn on the high beams, the low beams shut down! Only BRP could come up with such a system.

For the OP, are you getting any lights at all? If my description is what is happening then it's normal. If you are getting nothing, then the other answers given above are what you should be checking.

Robert

 

[NancysToy]

I'd check R8, the headlamp relay. Could be loose, or could be bad.

 

[boborgera]

I think ours in Australia are the same as the UK models. Our low beam is what you have as fog lights in USA and high beam is the upper pair of lights; if we want fog lights we have to buy and fit our own. The thing about this arrangement that is truly weird is that when you turn on the high beams, the low beams shut down! Only BRP could come up with such a system.

For the OP, are you getting any lights at all? If my description is what is happening then it's normal. If you are getting nothing, then the other answers given above are what you should be checking.

Robert

Similar to the US, All vehicles with fog lights by ''law'' when the high beams are turned on' the fogs must turn off automatically.!

 

[NancysToy]

Similar to the US, All vehicles with fog lights by ''law'' when the high beams are turned on' the fogs must turn off automatically.!

Not everywhere. Some of this falls back to accommodating laws in some states that limit vehicle to four white lights facing forward. When cars had dual headlamps, the fogs broke the law when the high beams were on.

 

[boborgera]

Not everywhere. Some of this falls back to accomodating laws in some states that limit vehicle to four white lights facing forward. When cars had dual headlamps, the fogs broke the law when the high beams were on.

Yes and no, It's for safety reasons, High beams are dangerous in the fog, So if you need fog lights to navigate in the fog the highs must turn off.

 

[Bob Denman]

In the foglight pod...
Isn't there a spot up front that's just begging for some type of light to get stuffed in there? (I'm thinking LED accents like up near the headlights...)

 

[NancysToy]

Yes and no, It's for safety reasons, High beams are dangerous in the fog, So if you need fog lights to navigate in the fog the highs must turn off.

What you say is true. It is a very good idea, but it is not mandated in many states for that particular reason...at least not that reason alone. I do think that is the reason that the auto manufacturers have adopted it, though, and made there controls work accordingly. Not necessarily to keep from being illegal...but just a darned good idea!

 

[gypsy_100]

Not everywhere. Some of this falls back to accommodating laws in some states that limit vehicle to four white lights facing forward. When cars had dual headlamps, the fogs broke the law when the high beams were on.

Correct. It's a state-by-state regulation but since the mfr's sell in all states, they go with the most conservative regulation and allow only four forward-facing lights. With the HID's on my Acura, the high- and low-beams come thru the same lens so it's actually wired that the low beams stay on when the high beams come on. That's the best system I've ever seen and it really puts the light out there. Other single-headlight vehicles don't seem to do this. Maybe too much heat behind the lens with conventional halogen bulbs, or I don't know what. But I like it, that's all I know.

 

[billybovine]

FMVSS

This is copied from "Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard". This is the US standard. "Canadian Motor Vehicle Standard" in most cases matches exactly the US one.


S.5.5.1 Each vehicle shall have a means of switching between lower
and upper beams that conforms to SAE Recommended Practice J564a Headlamp
Beam Switching, April 1964 or to SAE Recommended Practice J565b, Semi-
Automatic Headlamp Beam Switching Devices, February 1969. Except as
provided in S5.5.8, the lower and upper beams shall not be energized
simultaneously except momentarily for temporary signalling purposes or
during switching between beams.

 

[Bob Denman]

Well somebody's been playing with the lights on my Silverado (2007)
My lows are staying on when I click over to the high beams... :shocked:

But I'm not complaining! :thumbup:

 

[spydercowboy]

Well somebody's been playing with the lights on my Silverado (2007)
My lows are staying on when I click over to the high beams... :shocked:

But I'm not complaining! :thumbup:

You must have bought your truck used or they changed since my Silerado was made cause I bought and wired in a module that does just what you say. And BRP isn't the only 2 or 3 wheel manufacture that wires things to shut off when the high beams come on. My HD has 2 spot lights that you can turn on like fogs and when I turn the high beam on the spots go off so it's not unusual.

 

[Bob Denman]

Correct... I picked it up four months ago. :thumbup:

 

[billybovine]

There are exceptions.

Well somebody's been playing with the lights on my Silverado (2007)
My lows are staying on when I click over to the high beams... :shocked:

But I'm not complaining! :thumbup:

The copy of the standard I am referencing is text only and the tables and figures have been removed. So it has taken some time to find the exceptions as mentioned in the quote earlier. There are conditions when the manufacturer is allowed to have upper and lower beams on at the same time. The upper and lower beams must be from a separate light source, mounted in a common housing with a common aiming mechanism, the photometric values of the combined beams must meet the standard specification for high beams alone.

 

[pwilbarger]

My mistake posted in wrong place.


Spyder Phyl

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[boborgera]

. My HD has 2 spot lights that you can turn on like fogs and when I turn the high beam on the spots go off so it's not unusual.

Same-Same, with my Tri Glide.