1500 beetle...no hi beam !
i am pretty sure the headlight relay is the culprit...spent a few hours running around town trying to find a replacement...no luck.
do any of you guys no if there is an easilly available relay that would work?

supercheap dude.

are you sure it is the relay??

It is a different fuse to parkers and normal

problem with supercheap is no one knows if they are compatable ....ie there are dif. types of relay...they look the same or similar...but? do they switch the same way?

no... bizarre...am not sure, but seems likely as nothing else has changed and no fuse blown

What about when you "flash"???

Can this happen??

Have you tried tracing with a multi meter??

There is also "usually" pictures on the relays showing Normally Open and Normally Closed

Find one that LOOKS the same and see if the pictures line up

[ Edited on 3-12-2005 by Bizarre ]

Unusual for the VW headlamp relay to blow.....
Get a 2nd hand one from a wreckers......
If You can go and pick the relay yourself...
put a spare in your pocket.....

Lee

thanks fellas.took your advice and went to a multimeter....as assumed, no power on hi beam
went back to the fuses and removed them, they looked ok but very old, replaced them anyway, and the lights worked!
feeling a little embarrassed now.
on closer inspection, in decent light, you could see the break in two of the fuses but the metal strip seamed to be adhered to the body of the fuse preventing it from seperating..maybe something to do with the age of them...odd that two should go at the same time? oh well
my sons happy again now he can drive back to canberra tomorrow night
frustrating afternoon....amazing how often it turns out to be something obvious!