Head lights

[malky39]

Both the head lights on my sisters FS have stopped working, the side lights work and full beam work, anyone got any suggestions as to what may be wrong

 

[65coupe]

the bulbs have blown maybe??

 

[malky39]

yeh thought that but it seems a bit weird for both to go at the same time and on a one year old car as ever since i can remember none of the cars in my household have ever blown a bulb, could i be a fuse

 

[65coupe]

Seriously mate - check the bulbs first. Then the fuses. They do sometimes go together...

 

[Bondiblu]

Pop one out and have a look, cover the obvious first. I agree it is strange if they've both blown at the same time.

 

[malky39]

checked and yeh its the bulbs both gone, also having trouble getting the fuse box cover back on

 

[65coupe]

checked and yeh its the bulbs both gone, also having trouble getting the fuse box cover back on

see? told you so...

that's the type of thing I do; looking for the more complex problem. I once spent about an hour and a half trying to get the rear brake lights on my old cavalier working, only to figure out (eventually) that I was actually changing the rear foglight bulb and not the brakelight bulb...

 

[RUM4MO]

see? told you so...

that's the type of thing I do; looking for the more complex problem. I once spent about an hour and a half trying to get the rear brake lights on my old cavalier working, only to figure out (eventually) that I was actually changing the rear foglight bulb and not the brakelight bulb...

Yes well on that point I think if you tried doing this job on your Ibiza, then used Halford's bulb guide to get a replacement, you'd end up with a double filament bulb - not good - well at least that is what happened to me when I fitted a used bulb to temporarily replace a duff one on my wife's Polo 9N - then went to buy a pair of new ones - only to end up thinking that "that's not right"!

 

[Nath.]

More common is to have one bulb go and not realise, then the second one goes and you can't see at all.

 

[RUM4MO]

More common is to have one bulb go and not realise, then the second one goes and you can't see at all.

I totally agree, when this happened to my wife's Polo 9N I just thought that the lights needed cleaning (too tight to use the headlight washers!) - but the lights were clean, switched the lights on and the O/S dipped bulb was dead.

Oh and we all know that this can not happen as we check our lights regularly - well that was what I thought - but was wrong like a few others!