Yes indeed ! We really should organise another 944 invasion of a regional meet ! My most unnerving light related incident was in my Zermatt ' 85 Turbo which developed the fault that occasionally when you flicked the stalk to engage full beam ALL the lights went out ! Certainly an "interesting" experience whenever it happened which was usually while making spirited progress down a dark and twisty B road....ORIGINAL: ukmastiff Anyone remember when we did the ' 944 invasion' of the essex pcgb meet ? It was the first time id driven my black turbo in the dark and i thought i might die on the way there !, i nearly turned round and gave up. That was the last time i ever used standard bulbs []
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Hello Ian. 924s - 968s all route the headlamps current though their main headlamp switch. All of the cars are old now and some are very old so the wiring isnt great. It wasnt ever the best way of controlling the lights either, as it causes the headlamp switch to overheat, but I believe that they inherited it from Volkswagen. When you wire the lights directly you add a relay and use what was the main headlamp power cable to provide the very low switching current, and then wire the headlamps directly to a fused positive terminal (they sually say a free terminal on the fuse box, but Im not sure that such a thing exists, Id be tempted to wire a small automotive fusebox directly to the positive terminal on the battery). The headlpamps will now be powered by a short length of new wiring directly from the battery and the increase in brightness should be extremely impressive. As someone else mentioned, replacing the twenty year old sandblasted headlamps will help too, but thats not a cheap option on 1988> cars. Simon
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