Felicia N Reg, 1.3 petrol:No Headlights, No Side Lights, No nothing

[jackketch]

Firstly as I am new to this forum I apologise to the forum Mods in advance if I have posted this in the wrong place or am asking a question that has been asked hundreds of times before. If so please move it or link me respectively. Yesterday while driving my headlights, side lights and also fog lights stopped working. When I press the buttons then nothing happens and nothing lights up on the dash either. Dead. I assumed it was a fuse/relay issue. Checked the bank of 10 amp fuses which are for the lights and they all look good but there's no juice flowing into them. So I swapped the main relay for the heater relay and that seems to be fine too. I've now ordered a new 'X' relay (At £10.60!) but somehow I don't think that will be the cause of the problem either as the rear window heater still works and that, according to Haynes, also feeds off the 'X' relay. My question is, what else could the problem be? I have also checked the listed earths but they seem solid and clean too. I can't imagine 4 switches would all fail at once (ie side lights, headlights,front and back fog)

[Bigw2069]

Headlight switch on the dash?

[jackketch]

Originally Posted by Bigw2069

Headlight switch on the dash?

Not quite sure what you're trying to say. Do you mean if that has somehow failed that it will kill everything else?

[anewman]

The sidelight switch would kill everything else, as headlights would not go on without sidelights and neither would fogs. Does flashing the headlights work?

[jackketch]

Originally Posted by anewman

The sidelight switch would kill everything else, as headlights would not go on without sidelights and neither would fogs. Does flashing the headlights work?

Yes flashing the headligts does still work. I had the dash off and there is a live feed to the side light swtch. Do you happen to know which colour wire is the live feed OUT of the sidelight switch ?

[Bigw2069]

Im not to familiar with the felicia but had a similar problem on my Mk1 golf GTi, the switch to turn the lights on was on the dash and it packed up, since the switch wasnt working it wouldnt turn any of the lights you have described above on, yet flashing would as it was separate to the main light switch.

[jackketch]

Originally Posted by Bigw2069

Im not to familiar with the felicia but had a similar problem on my Mk1 golf GTi, the switch to turn the lights on was on the dash and it packed up, since the switch wasnt working it wouldnt turn any of the lights you have described above on, yet flashing would as it was separate to the main light switch.

Yeah I'm hoping very much a lot that you and anewman are right and that the sidelight or main switch has packed up. I'm going to go have another look after dinner and try bridging it.

[jackketch]

YAY! W00T! It was indeed the sidelight switch, a quick bridge and all is good. Thanks BigW and anewman. [/thread]

[anewman]

I guess it should be possible to go Volvo style and wire the sidelights to the ignition switch Probably best to replace the switch though.