Problem with Xenon Headlamp

johnnyroper

anewman wrote: »

Some cars without xenons have headlight washer jets. Even the Skoda Favorit Blackline had them back in 1993

yes but i bet they aint got projector headlamp and auto levelling along with the high pressure wash?


i would go with ballast or connection the bulb either works or it dont.
my N/S one on subaru used to flicker with road vibration turned out to be faulty ballast

zudecke

vaio wrote: »

I had this on my Audi, intermittent failure to start which worked if you switched off and then on again. Slowly got worse and then failed altogether.

Problem was traced to bad contact between bulb and connector which had over heated and melted/burnt.

The connector comes as part of the igniter and Audi wanted north of £500 for the set. Ended up spending £100 on ebay for one that was destined for a TVR but had the same Hella part number.

Moral of the story……don’t leave it, a clean/reseat of the connection might cure it and save you £££.

If you do have an igniter fault then they are mostly interchangeable as long as your car doesn’t have canbus comms to the lights and there is space to physically fit it in. Most aftermarket ones are smaller then OEM

Edited to add: When you are fiddling with the connector make sure the lights are turned off as there are seriously high (70-90 kV) voltages involved which you really really don’t want to put a finger on

While I appreciate that help and envy your knowledge about all this, I really have no idea about any of it and think I'd most likely screw up the system completely...

zudecke

Spoke to a really helpful mechanic who reckons because its intermittent he doubts it the bulb or the amplifier and instead just a loose connection somewhere and that fingers crossed, that "connection" just needs "tightening" up.

Sounds reasonable?