2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission Lights Out ?!?!?!?!?!!?!?

[jponder]

I was cruising down a country road at 1:00 am saturday and out of no where BAMM NO HEADLIGHTS!!!!!!! skeered the hell out of me couldnt see nothing, got on the brakes and started hitting the light switch and they came back on like nothing happened



I pulled over and checked the the lights. I found that I hadnt shut my hood all the way when i checked the oil at the last stop so i shut it. I turned the lights off and on several times flicked them between dim and bright and everything looked fine so i go putting on down the road and this time they went off in a curve skeered the beegebus out of me but i started clicking the bright light switch and they popped back on.



I am across from a cutover so i pull into the logging road and climb up in me camper and go to sleep. I asked my buddy who works as a tech for a dodge dealership and he says that since my running lights stayed on it was my dimmer switch, if they would have went off it would have been my light switch. I think I will change both AND get some aux lights like fog lights or something. It would be very easy for someone to die when this happens.



Any other ideas?

 

[Thomas]

... i started clicking the bright light switch and they popped back on... since my running lights stayed on it was my dimmer switch...

It's the dimmer - P/N 5269377 SWITCH, Multifunction



The fact that your running lights stayed on has nothing to do with the multi-function (dimmer) switch however.

 

[Okie-Go]

My problem

is I have headlights but no park lights or tail lights. I can turn on the switch and the dash lights don't even come on. Any ideas about this. I was going to make a new post but saw this.

 

[jponder]

thanks thomas.



I been driving for 25 years and i aint never ever ever had something like that happen. That multifunction switch is gona kill someone and DC is going to get it in court

 

[Thomas]

... I have headlights but no park lights or tail lights. I can turn on the switch and the dash lights don't even come on...

Fuse F in the Power Distribution Center, headlight switch, wiring, all the bulbs.



I'd start with the fuse. Check with a meter, even if it looks good.

 

[Thomas]

thanks thomas.



I been driving for 25 years and i aint never ever ever had something like that happen. That multifunction switch is gona kill someone and DC is going to get it in court

You will find more posts about failed multi-function switches than failed headlight switches on this board. Look at this drawing. If you tap the VT/WT at either 9004 headlight bulb socket and ground it, the low beam filament will light. If you put a toggle switch in this tapped circuit you will have a way to turn the low beams on, whether or not the multi-function and/or headlight switches work. I don't know if the you-left-your-lights-on buzzer will work with the low beams turned on via the added ground wire. You will also gain a cheap "BriteBox".