cm8809

Hey whats up everyone. Just picked up an 87 944. I'm having some problems with the headlights - whoever had the car before us put in this HID xenon kit. The headlights only come on intermitantly - the motors work fine, they always come up, but they only actually come on sometimes. And then as soon as I turn the switch and turn them off, they won't come back on again. Sometimes if the switch is on but they aren't on, and I fiddle with the switch a little bit, they will come on. There is an audible clicking noise coming from by the passenger side headlight as I fiddle. Any ideas?

John_AZ

Check to see if the PO (previous owner) installed the correct wiring kit with the HID kit.

http://www.rennbay.com/porsche-944-h...c120114cb73262

GL & welcome
John

cm8809

Yeah that's the one

Edit: Although it seems the 12V power is connected straight to the battery terminal, rather than the alternator as recommended by that link. Surely this couldn't be the problem though, right? I mean, can't get 12V much more directly then straight off the battery +..

Crackership

dead/dying relays in the harness? also, check to see that the harness was installed correctly.

John_AZ

More info:

http://www.924board.org/viewtopic.php?t=26091

GL
John

cm8809

It seemed to me that the relays and fuses must be fine, since the headlights worked a couple times intermitantly. I'm not familiar with the concept of a relay "dying" but not being dead - could you please elaborate?

My first guess was the switch itself inside the car, since it works when fiddled with sometimes and when it does work, as soon as I switch it off and on again it doesn't work.