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Offline hneel

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The headlights of my i30 don't work anymore.
First I checked one of the lightbulbes. At first sight it looked fine and I also checked it with a  multimeter.
Next I checked the fuse. This is the 15A "HEAD LAMP" fuse from the compartment behind the door. This one was fine too.

Then I googled and found that it might be a relay. However, I don't know which relay to check. I don't understand all those abbrieviations.
There are 2 boxes with relays and fuses in the motor compartment. I added some pictures:









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Only the low beam lights are malfunctioning. The high beam is still working.
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The headlights of my i30 don't work anymore.
First I checked one of the lightbulbes. At first sight it looked fine and I also checked it with a  multimeter.
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Have you checked the leads are all tight also swaped bulbs to check the seating in the holder is ok?
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This lads on the money  :goodjob2:

Many relays are interchangeable , so an easy way to check
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Are you sure its just not the bulbs?
All four sets of low beam bulbs ive gone through have blown at the same time on both sides, first time I was so sure it was the relay(after changing the fuses, that were fine) I drove home 400km in the dark with only fog and hi beams, lucky not a lot of oncoming traffic and dawn aproaching the last half illuminating some. They have also always blown when I start the car, now I always carry a spare set.
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mate quite possible. I was just clarifying fuse and relay. Assumed OP had enough sense to check bulbs first.

Have made that assumption before, and found OP had not checked  :spitty:
guess its me without enough sense  :mrgreen:
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Are you sure its just not the bulbs?


First I checked one of the lightbulbes. At first sight it looked fine and I also checked it with a  multimeter.
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Ah, missed that :)
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