Dip beams dead

[karl2000]

Reason for asking about the parking lights and number plate lighs is they seem to go through that integration relay so if they work, it cant be totally dead...

 

[Wavs21]

Wel what I’m hoping for is when I replace my lights/indicator stalk, all will be well,

But i wanted to do the research b4 hand and see if any educated opinions could keep me on the straight and narrow b4 I pull the pull the entire black red wire out of the yota cause it looked and me funny and smelled of scorched grease at 3am of a Sunday night…….and wasn’t even related to a relay or light for that matter……..

 

[Wavs21]

Hi everyone.
Just thought it might help someone later.

I fitted my new headlight/flasher stalk
(Right handed one extremely rare to get it seems)

It seemed to have fixed my dead dip beams and is behaving as it should

Hover I have spotted that I wired my dips and head backwards
(So that another days fiddling)

I read here or on another forum…..
……. 12v goes through the stalk and because I burned out the contacts in the stalk any signal could not get past the stalk through to the relays in the fuse box and thus to the dips or headlights.

Thanks for help and advice along the way tho.
I’ll stick up a photo of my headlight mods later…….happy with the look but performance is yet to be confirmed…..

 

[Davet]

The prado uses a system that senses the load from the head light globe if you relace the stock fillament type with led you need to buy the load canbus from ebay to add extra load as led have near none you will find also that if you have any aux lights running of the high beam circuit that they along with your high beam dash indicator will not work

 

[Wavs21]

The prado uses a system that senses the load from the head light globe if you relace the stock fillament type with led you need to buy the load canbus from ebay to add extra load as led have near none you will find also that if you have any aux lights running of the high beam circuit that they along with your high beam dash indicator will not work

Yes Davet!!
Thank you for replying to this.
This be is the answer that has kept me awake at night for months.
It makes so much sense that the loads are different when changing from halogen to led, but I didn’t think that I would need a certain load (or load resistors for that matter) across the headlight circuit to trick it into sending full 12v to the dips.


It’s the last thing for me to try here anyways. But I think you have nailed it.

Get back to you later when I get load resistors fitted and see how big the explosion actually gets…..

Thanks again.

 

[Davet]

Yes Davet!!
Thank you for replying to this.
This be is the answer that has kept me awake at night for months.
It makes so much sense that the loads are different when changing from halogen to led, but I didn’t think that I would need a certain load (or load resistors for that matter) across the headlight circuit to trick it into sending full 12v to the dips.


It’s the last thing for me to try here anyways. But I think you have nailed it.

Get back to you later when I get load resistors fitted and see how big the explosion actually gets…..

Thanks again.

Hope this helps