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MG MGF Technical - Faulty headlamp

Folks, my drivers side headlamp (low beam) has stopped working - bulb is fine and fuses are fine. Checked wiring on connectors (that fit onto bulb etc) and they are OK ... any ideas ??

Gaz
P15VVC
Gaz

Hi,

Sorry for my poor automobile vocabular in English but what do you call "low beam" ?
Is it the head lamp first position or the second one ?

I had such a problem with the first position. I checked the bulb (12V W5W) and it was OK. Then I put it back in the connector and it worked again ... until this week when it broke down ... and now the "wire" inside the bulb is broken.

I think there must be a bad contact between the bulb and the connector, or humidity ?

Jerome
Jérôme

Its OK folks being the idiot that I am I was looking at the wrong bulb !!!!
Gaz

You should have waited to tell us all that. I would have liked to have seen how many amazingly technical reasons we could have devised as an explanation to your problem !!

It would have made interesting reading !!

Cheers,

Daniel.
Daniel Ginger

>my drivers side headlamp (low beam) has stopped working
Isn't it a sign for a HGF ?????????

>my drivers side headlamp (low beam) has stopped working
This is due to the poor quality of the MGF, it never occurs on MX5

>my drivers side headlamp (low beam) has stopped working
And now I'm loosing power in 3rd gear around 3590revs

>my drivers side headlamp (low beam) has stopped working
Do you think it will be changed under goodwill by my dealer ?

>my drivers side headlamp (low beam) has stopped working
You should write a letter to Rover to complain ;-)

>my drivers side headlamp (low beam) has stopped working
When did you buy your F and how many miles does it have ?

>my drivers side headlamp (low beam) has stopped working
Here is the wiring for the low beam headlamp http://mgf.virtualave.net/sb26.jpg

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This thread was discussed on 23/02/2000

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