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Originally Posted by married2speed  He said that this has nothing to do with the alternator and that a relay of around 500Ampere was to be installed.
I got the car serviced about 2K before from honda and had there been a problem with the alternator, wouldn't have that come up during the service? Is the MASS guy taking me for a ride or should i get the alternator checked from Honda and get pinched from them? |
Problems with components can come up anytime - you can't really blame the service center
unless they're delibrately screwing things up under the hood.
Eventually these're electronic & mechanical components - which may / may not fail as they please.
If your car starts up OK and the normal electricals are functioning as they should, then your alternator can be ruled out as the culprit.
Your mechanic wants to install a 500A relay, or do you have 500A relays installed? If so, use a different mechanic.
30A relays should be more than sufficient for normal operation.
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Originally Posted by married2speed It's just the high beam which blows off and the pattern is quite erratic. It starts off from the right one and after the right one is replaced, the left one blows out. Seems like the car is conspiring against me not to have 2 full high beams 
aah78 - you mentioned about a mess up while wiring up the relay. How do we check if there's a problem with the relay. Some diagnostic perhaps. Maybe the relay itself is ok but the wiring not quite ok? |
This may sound crazy but, have they put in a single relay to control both high-beams? There
should be one relay per.
Direct lines (12V) from your battery (preferable) or alternator - make sure they have inline fuses (20-30A) before the relays, not too far from the source.
The headlights will be grounded but check that your relays are too. Make sure they're grounded tightly to the chassis with paint scraped off.
Alternate:
Get rid off all this wiring mumbo-jumbo and get yourself the new Philips X-treme Power bulbs. They're great.
Just had a pair fitted onto my LR3 - 12V, 55W - standard wattage but much brighter than the standard OSRAM halogens.