Hello,

My wife has a 2003 Honda Accord EX V6 with 130k miles. About 2 months ago one of the low beam bulbs burned out so I replaced it and the good 1 with SilverStars. Last week a taillight burned out so I replaced it. WELL last night my wife lost all the headlights. I checked all the fuses and they all look good. I removed the battery and checked the wiring on both sides (driver and pass) to see if there was any rubbing, nothing. When you turn on the lights you can hear the replays switching up front, the dash indicators for the lights (and high beams) comes on, but there is no ding. So just for grins I installed the old bulb I removed 2 months ago and it worked. SO that leads me to believe that all 4 bulbs are bad. How can that be? They are on seperate fuses too. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Matt Sutter

 

Perhaps HID's are more fragile and unable to tolerate vibration of automobile. Otherwise, a very unusual coincidence.

good luck

 

SO here is the story. Maybe it will help someone else in the future.

Today I went to take it to the dealer and the battery was dead. HOWEVER the battery was only 1 1/2 years old from AutoZone. So I took it there. He tested it and said it was bad. So I got a new battery, then he checked the charging system and it checked okay. So I leave. Then all the dash lights come on. ABS light, TC light, airbag light, battery light, all of them. SO I drive to the Honda dealer. Tell them my story and they look at it. Turns out it is the alternator. What probably happened is the diodes in the regulator blew causing a surge which blew the lights. Then the overcharge cooked the battery and caused the ECm to trigger all the lights. So a new alternator seems to have cured everything.

 

Wow, thats really strange. Still, THANK YOU for coming back & posting the final result.