head light replacement

[snglbrd]

my brother has a 98 boxster, we went to change headlight on drivers side, low beam. and the left light is still way brighter then the right, we took it apart and both bulbs look fine and we checkd the fuses i could only find high beam fuse, they were all ok any ideas?

[snglbrd]

does anyone know of a forum where you can get answers from?

[Loren]

Try a little patience please... it is a busy time of year for everyone...

Take the headlight out and checked that the connector part that stays in the car (when the headlight is out). See if it has any bent pins -- or that a pin (or two) has come loose and is not connecting?

[Chris_in_NH]

does anyone know of a forum where you can get answers from?

LOL! and i thought *i* was impatient! :clapping:

to begin with, let's use common terms. driver's side and passenger's side. left and right depends on your vantage point. you also haven't mentioned if these lights are Litronics (Xenon) or standard halogens. i'll assume halogens.

do all the other lights in the driver's side headlight assembly work? are they as bright as the passenger side lights?

have you tried swapping the new bulb to the passenger's side to see if it is a bad bulb? it happens...

have you tried re-seating the driver's side headlight? sometimes when putting it back in, the pins don't connect exactly right, as Loren suggested.

what brand bulb did you use? is it a 55w H7 bulb? if you use a bulb of higher wattage, it can melt the headlight lens, and they are not cheap. if you used the wrong size bulb, then it could work the way you describe or not at all.

details!

Edited December 18, 2006 by Chris_in_NH

[mikefocke]

Low beam is higher in light fixture than high beam.

Could you have changed the wrong one? The owner's manual isn't the clearest on this point.

[koya1893]

Low beam is higher in light fixture than high beam.

Could you have changed the wrong one? The owner's manual isn't the clearest on this point.

This can help or it m ight just be another experience to tell people. During my modification of doing the "daylight running" light I extracted the #9 fuse which is for the light to see if that indeed disable the lights. It did not, the driver's side look normal as far as brightness and the passenger side look very dim. There could be another fuse I don't know, I am not one to say I am an electrical guru when I plug the fuse back into #9 they both look normal. I finished that daytime running light hack and both side look normal now.

Ben

[986fan]

During my modification of doing the "daylight running" light I extracted the #9 fuse which is for the light to see if that indeed disable the lights. It did not, the driver's side look normal as far as brightness and the passenger side look very dim. There could be another fuse I don't know, I am not one to say I am an electrical guru when I plug the fuse back into #9 they both look normal. I finished that daytime running light hack and both side look normal now.

I just tried the DRL hack less than 20 minutes ago - it gives you full strength low beams whenever the key is on

(which I did not want - I wanted the fogs to be on or half-strength beams). Anyway, when I removed this unwanted

mod I found that my passenger side headlamp was very dim because the stupid Radio Shack fuse taps stretched

out the fuse terminals on the bottom of fuse #9 so far that it no longer makes contact without re-inserting the fuse

tap piece. I hope this will be ok - seems to be. I sure dont want to have to replace the fuse panel!

Edited June 23, 2007 by 986fan