No Low Beam Headlights
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No Low Beam Headlights
Hello Everyone,
I'm new to the forum. Hoping for some help with my Wife's car. It's a 2000 Accord 2 door with a 6 cyl. Yesterday she found both low-beam headlights don't work. I did some troubleshooting and here's what I've found so far:
The hi-beams still work
I tried replacing a bulb with no success
The headlight fuses are all OK. ( I did not check with multimeter)
I was thinking a relay could be the problem but they seem to be good. I switched the 2 headlight relays but no change. I moved the horn relay to both headlight spots with no change. I tried both headlight relays in the horn position, and the horn still worked. The relay's I'm referring to are under the hood, passenger side, against the firewall in fuse box.
It is an american built car so it does not have DRLs as far as I know. I looked through the forums and found some info but nothing that deals directly with this problem. If I missed an old thread, please let me know.
I'm trying to rule out everything easy before assuming it must be the switch. Let me know if there's more info needed. Thanks in advance.
Homeschool
I'm new to the forum. Hoping for some help with my Wife's car. It's a 2000 Accord 2 door with a 6 cyl. Yesterday she found both low-beam headlights don't work. I did some troubleshooting and here's what I've found so far:
The hi-beams still work
I tried replacing a bulb with no success
The headlight fuses are all OK. ( I did not check with multimeter)
I was thinking a relay could be the problem but they seem to be good. I switched the 2 headlight relays but no change. I moved the horn relay to both headlight spots with no change. I tried both headlight relays in the horn position, and the horn still worked. The relay's I'm referring to are under the hood, passenger side, against the firewall in fuse box.
It is an american built car so it does not have DRLs as far as I know. I looked through the forums and found some info but nothing that deals directly with this problem. If I missed an old thread, please let me know.
I'm trying to rule out everything easy before assuming it must be the switch. Let me know if there's more info needed. Thanks in advance.
Homeschool
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I'd be doing continuity measurements with a multimeter next. First the fuses, they can be open but APPEAR to be OK.
Break in the wiring someplace? I don't have a 2000 shop manual so can't tell you much detail, but it looks like you've ruled out the easy stuff. Shop manual will have a small table showing which terminals are supposed to have continuity with each other at the switch, in each position of the switch.
Break in the wiring someplace? I don't have a 2000 shop manual so can't tell you much detail, but it looks like you've ruled out the easy stuff. Shop manual will have a small table showing which terminals are supposed to have continuity with each other at the switch, in each position of the switch.
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