Technical Help!!! Where Exactly I Can Find The Resistor On The Headlight Assembly

[adamot]

:bang: I read the thread on alexGS regarding relays. that was a mind opener. no wonder my head lights still dim. i got a new H4 xenon super white bulb 100/90 W Installed on it and new batteries, but still if you dont step on the gas pedal its really dark. well im anxiously wanting to find that resistor and unplug it, so where can i find it?

1990-1993 - FIAT UNO 45S

 

[Chas Uno]

Fiat seemed to fit it in a few places. On my 1989 70 SX it's attached to the n/s front suspeniosn turret (right side as you face the car). On Jai's turbo it's attached to the front panel next to the o/s headlight (right side as you face the car).

Mine seems to work fine. Jai wants to rip his out and smash it with a hammer as it causes him nothing but grief!

 

[adamot]

thanks for the reply im not really familiar of how it looks,
ive been scouting for hours for a spring out of the tin box (its how alex described it but still cant find it. attached some pics,,
basing on the last two irrelevant pics. can you or somebody from the forum tell me what model year exactly is my uno?

fiat uno 45S

 

[alexGS]

OK - just a moment - your Uno may not have the dim-dip system fitted (and therefore no resistor). It was only fitted after 1987 and until some particular date, and then probably only to Uno models going to the UK or to other right-hand-drive countries (Ireland, New Zealand...)

The purpose of the resistor is to dim the headlights when the headlight switch is set to the first click - the 'sidelights' position.

If you can set the headlight switch to 'sidelights' and then you get only the sidelights (tiny 5W bulbs, not the main headlight bulbs) then you don't have the resistor.

The resistor only becomes a problem if you fit relays as I described - THEN you have to disconnect the resistor otherwise the headlights come on at full power with the switch in the 'sidelights' position

Meanwhile the first picture looks weird straightaway to us 'Uno Spotters' (Chas I'm talking to you ) - the alternator is in the 'wrong' place and looks Japanese, and there is a receiver/drier for the airconditioning (nice!) I'm guessing that the aircon compressor is where the alternator is for our Unos (behind the engine). Isn't it interesting that a model that has air-conditioning doesn't even have a temperature gauge on the dash!

-Alex

 

[adamot]

Im sad coz i have still to find a solution on why my headlights go dimmer when im not stepping on the gas. anyways im surprise also. with your UNO engine pics, the alternator is KOREAN when i had it replaced 6mos ago. because my previous one was busted.(a japanese), radiator japanese(suzuki) much bigger tubes so can withstand the hot temperature here, had it replaced when my original radiator plastic part leaked and it blew up when i had an overheat once.
the temperature gauge, not sure about it. we just depend on the car image on the rightmost. it lits up when the engine is overheating.
JUST ATTACHING PICS SO YOU CAN SCRUTINIZE OR RECOMMEND ABOUT WHERE TO PLACE WHAT, IN ITS PROPER PLACE.... I GOT IT LIKE THIS ALREADY....

THANKS GUYS....