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Left High Beam out, not the bulb - Orange Relay strikes again ! Posted by Mark in Marine [Email] (#1837) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Mark in Marine) on Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:53:38 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
My daughter's 2006 wagon with halogens (other one has Xenons) had its left high beam out - and gave an error message when high beams were activated. The bulb was good - I replaced anyway, and confirmed it was not the bulb.
I suspected the Orange Relay - according to eEuroparts this is the same part number from 1999 to 2009. My daughter had the car at her work, but I could get there this a.m., so I 'borrowed' the relay from our '99 SE, popped it apart, and checked/re-flowed the solder joints between the circuit board and the base pins. I drove to my daughter's work, installed the '99 relay in my daughter's 2006, and presto! All headlight functions restored =).
I inspected the relay from the 2006: It had cracking on two of the solder joints, and a little browning (from heat ?) at one of them. I reflowed the solder at three of the joints, installed into the '99 9-5, and all headlights worked.
While this might seem like a "shotgun" method of trouble shooting and getting lucky, it is really just using available information to make the Orange Relay the first step in a proper decision tree. It's all made possible by the shared knowledge of this board and others like it. Thanks all who've posted on this in the past!
Mark in Marine
P.S. I try to explain to my wife and daughters that the only smart thing I do in this is seeking good information and advice =).
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