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Old 10-29-2016, 10:40 AM
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I have a problem with my lights. My front and rear side maker lights, rear license plate lights, front and rear fog lights and my dash guages lights are all not working.
All other lights (headlight low/high, turn signals, backup lights, brake lights) are working fine.

I had checked my fuses box and there are no burnt fuses.

Please help. Thank you.

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This may help you find the circuit common to all the items you describe:
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Thank you for your diagrams. I am thinking about the light switch.
Do you have another higher resolution copies?

Thank you.
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Thank you pp000830. Really appreciated. After reading your diagram, I was sure that the problem is a bad light switch. I opened the switch up and some plastic was melted a bit and prevented the contacting of the metals. I cleaned it up and put the switch back together and it is working fine now.
Once again, thanks for helping out.
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As far as i know the 993s don't have a relay for the head lights so the eletricity for the lights goes through the switch and that is not the best layout.
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Originally Posted by Railmaster.
As far as i know the 993s don't have a relay for the head lights so the eletricity for the lights goes through the switch and that is not the best layout.
While not using a slave relay eliminates a component, thus a potential point of failure...it also increases the wear on the switch itself. A typical engineering trade-off. Maybe there's more to it, but I agree...I would prefer a relay to handle the headlight current flow.



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