Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 01:05:27 -0000 From: "jj" <chnopsamail.com> Subject: Re: Headlamps - How to return to Swedish?
"Paul Halliday" <pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:BA910503.42D4%pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk... > Hi guys & gals, > > Just a quickie. > > My '89 900 turbo headlamps operate the English way as follows on the > headlight selector switch: > > 1. Left position - all lights off. > 2. Middle position - sidelights and low beams on. > 3. Right position - sidelights and main beams on. > > My other 900s had a different operating mode and so do the classic 900s that > I pass on my travels. I remember reading somewhere (but I can't find it for > the life in me now) that there is a fuse to pull out/insert to have the > following operation: > > 1. Left position - sidelights on. > 2. Middle position - sidelights on, even when the engine is off. > 3. Right position - sidelights and main beams on. > > This is what I'm after - back to Swedish :) > I have the single set of fuses in the engine bay, without the secondary box > under the rear seat. > > Any advice would be very much appreciated. > > Paul > > 1989 900 Turbo S > http://saab.go.dyndns.org/ > The swedish way these days is to have full headlights at all times, just leave you headlights switch to full :-) Daytime running lights are 'extra bright' sidelamps utilising twin filament 21/5w bulbs..Not present on an '89, the fuse position is blank, the wiring was removed and 5w bulbs fitted instead. Saab discontinued them in '87 when 'dim-dip' headlamps became mandatory in the UK. I think they came back in 91 but with full-headlamps instead...