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'Driving' Lamps
Stupid question of the day - having just picked up my first (used) Discovery on Friday, it has driving lamps already installed though I am still not sure about them. Anyway, I have no idea how you turn them on - any ideas? They don't come on with the normal lights, fog lights or full beam (flash or fixed).
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27th May 2007 8:23 pm
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Have you got the switch depressed which activates them? It's usually on the upper console, labelled with a main beam symbol with a "2" inside.
If this is switched on, then the driving lamps should come on with main beam only (by law)06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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27th May 2007 8:27 pm
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Sorry to sound dim but whereabouts on the upper console would this switch be? I would have thought a switch would be really obvious but given I can't ever find anything in the fridge perhaps I should get Mrs Bins on it?
27th May 2007 8:33 pm
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I think it's on the right of the speedo cluster - might be the left, can't entirely remember! It's definitely at that level though 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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27th May 2007 8:40 pm
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27th May 2007 8:42 pm
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27th May 2007 9:02 pm
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Ok, just braved the rain and the dark and there is no switch - just a blank plate - also no big red line (though this is not a major concern). It looks like the lights have been installed for a while.
27th May 2007 9:11 pm
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27th May 2007 9:14 pm
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Sounds like whoever had the car wired them in a non-LR manner, although to be legal they should still have had a switch. They might have disconnected them for that reason when selling? The wiring was probably taken off of the feed for the main beam - it might pay to have a look behind the lights to see if you can see where they were disconnected. On the other hand, perhaps they were never wired up.Disco 5 HSE Lux
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28th May 2007 8:36 am
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DiscoStu wrote:
they were never wired up.
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28th May 2007 9:18 am
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I will have another check when the rain eases up.
28th May 2007 9:33 am
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If you get stuck bring yourself along to the South East Pub Meet at Cobham tomorrow and I'm sure someone will suss it out 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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28th May 2007 9:43 am
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Thanks Martin but I am child collection duty tonight - apparently its not called child minding when they are your own.
I have spoken to the previous owner though who tells me that they were original connected directly to the full beam and were then disconnected by Stratstones when the car developed some electrical gremlins (apparently necessitating a entirely new wiring loom??).
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I think it's on the right of the speedo cluster - might be the left, can't entirely remember! It's definitely at that level though 
working on it though 
