Been a while since I've been proactive on the forum and with the platform changes I'm not even sure if I'm posting this to the right section of the forum, so someone let me know if I've got it wrong.
My daughter's white 89 240 wagon, the Gremlin, has given me a full year of chasing issues like no other car I've ever known. I did bring it back from the dead after an accident that probably should have let the old girl RIP after something like half a million KLM.
One of the latest two is no headlights after sitting a few months resolving some other items.
Checked the earth, Swapped in another step relay under the bonnet, still no lights.
Tonight I swapped the "main relay" as per https://www.240turbo.com/headlightrelay.html
I swapped with an updated Bosch 0 332 016 006 I had on hand, which I understand is the "K" relay replacement.
Wasn't hard to get to TBH, and didn't require shifter console removal as per video in that link.
Still no headlights 😡😡😡😡.
Next step was to tinker in the area of the lamp warning "cylinder" behind the glove box. A few technical taps, some tickling and still no headlights. Then, as in the photo attached, I saw adjacent the warning relay another that looked just like another "K" relay (just left of the FPR), which on closer inspection had identical pins and was red hot to touch. So I just took the original "K" relay that I'd just removed and tried it in that location. BINGO, lights working PERFECTLY! In fact brighter than I recall in high and low, except the in the off position the parker lights remain on (including with engine off).
If anyone is still following my saga, the relay I swapped behind the glove box with the old "K" relay that solved the headlight issue was Bosch 0332015012, which appears to be a hazard lamp relay, WTF?
I'll source another 0332015012 (can't find a cross reference for the new equivalent) and put it where the original was just left of the FPR, but nowhere I've read talks about this being part of the headlight circuit, so I don't know how it made my headlights better than ever whilst not allowing me to turn off the park lights.
