Technical both headlights failed!

[FNG]

Hi,

my multipla's headlights have both just failed

the side ones work, main beam works but on the second setting (dipped) I get nothing

Checked and changed both fuses and another 10am one for the headlight coil? but no difference

Any ideas?

Is it linked to this? - https://www.fiatforum.com/uno/163144-no-dipped-beam-headlight.html

Ta

FNG

 

[the frog]

Are you sure it's not just the bulbs?

 

[FNG]

Hi,

I am planning on buying a new bulb and checking tonight.

However for both to go at the same time but leave the main beam intact just strikes me as odd.

Also their are no warnings on the dash, as far as the car is concerned the lights are on. Does it come up with a light if any bulbs blow?

FNG

 

[FNG]

agahagaga

OK, I am now going mad.

Those top lights are a bitch to remove and it never says you need a hexaganal screwdriver!

Anyway. Can some one help me as I am majorily confused.

I have an old style multipla.
On the light switch I turn it to setting 1 and the two lights at the bottom come on.
I turn it to setting 2 and nothing changes,
I pull it back and the main beam flash and those are the top two froggy eyes.

so...

should something else happen between at stage 2?

I swear blind that the top froggy lights used to come on at stage 2 but not as bright as main beam.

Also the bottom lights seem to give off virtually no light at all?

Help me

FNG

 

[Zundapp]

The lower lamps contain the sidelight bulbs and dip headlight bulbs.
The upper lamps are full beam only.

 

[FNG]

two bulb or a single bulb with two elements?

so the froggy lights only come with main beam then?

FNG

 

[the frog]

Sidelight bulbs should be 501's and headlamp bulbs are H7's.

It could be something else but changing the bulbs is a fairly cheap option.

 

[FNG]

fixed, both bulbs had blown simultaniously

shame I needed to replace both the front and rear brakes for my mot as well

FNG

PS, how reliable are the cambelts? I think mine needs doing but can't afford it now

 

[Colin Edwards]

Regarding your Cambelt I think it is every 5 years or 60,000km

 

[reeseyboy]

.......how reliable are the cambelts? I think mine needs doing but can't afford it now

I think the question here should be: "how much is it to sort out the mess a broken cambelt will cause? Is it less than replacing the belt?"

I wouldn't risk it myself, had mine done a couple of months ago just for piece of mind. The expense and inconvenience of the belt breaking far outweighs having the belt done as a preventative measure.

 

[JTDman]

Id say about every 2 years poss or 30,000 which ever comes sooner, ive just done mine while i was doing my clutch .
Id taken the car off the road and after just a week of being laid up the spring loaded tensioner had seized good job i never re started it as it would have been all over.

Cambelt
Idler
Tensioner
Water pump

 

[FNG]

Id say about every 2 years poss or 30,000 which ever comes sooner

yeah right, easy to say and do when you do it yourself but not a practicle solution to someone who has to take the car to a mekanik for any servicing.

FNG

 

[Zundapp]

A broken timing belt means your car's dead and effectively a scrapper. Realistically, after about 40,000 miles you're living on borrowed time if you haven't replaced the timing belt and it's ancillaries - no matter what mileage the manufacturer's maintenance schedule specifies.

I know this info isn't helpful when you're running a car on a budget, but you have to be realisitic....

 

[JTDman]

This was my first cambelt! easy compared to the clutch/flywheel its just a confidence thing.

 

[booklady]

fixed, both bulbs had blown simultaniously

shame I needed to replace both the front and rear brakes for my mot as well

FNG

PS, how reliable are the cambelts? I think mine needs doing but can't afford it now

oddly we suffered the almost the same thing!! Drivers headlight blew at 6pm on Sunday, passenger side went 6pm on Monday spooky