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  1. Hi all, apologies for the short story here I have been having a few issue with the headlights on my phase 1 -A few weeks ago I was driving down a country lane with my lights on, out of nowhere cabin fills with smoke and that familiar smell of melting french electrics So the wire that runs from the fusebox to the headlights has got caught between the gearbox mount and the bodywork and shorted out - Its melted to nothing. Its melted all the way back past the fuse box and on to the combi switch for the lights. On its way out has melted together the other wires running to 4 pin plug at the front of the combi - the tail lights and indicators. what a mess! Ive cut the melted stuff out, and rewired the tail lights and indicators to their respective pins on the 'R' plug in the fusebox - these work fine. I still cant get the headlights to work on dip beam, despite them working on full beam If i connect a live directly to the output from the fusebox to the lights on plug 'B' they work, (light on the dash cluster, and the foglamp switches both illuminate aswell) I have one pin available on the combi switch, and one (slightly charred!) pin on the 'R' plug on the fusebox. The pin on the fusebox according to my multimeter goes to earth, and it seems that the pin on the combi plug on the dash does absolutely f***all whether its connected to power or earth or plug R or anything Are these two supposed to be connected? you would assume so but it doesn't worky im pretty sure im now on the hunt for another phase 1 combi switch, im now also thinking that has done the inside of the fusebox aswell heres some pictures a digit in a hole (bottom left as we look at it) https://www.dropbox.com/s/fxjttwi4wnynmgh/IMAG0039.jpg?dl=0 Pin in Plug R https://www.dropbox.com/s/egytahocm93a4wo/IMAG0040.jpg?dl=0 (ill tidy it up once it works!) Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated Cheers, Matt
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