This is no less confusing on old cars. I have never really fully got to grips with Célestine's headlight switch. I knew how to make it work, for sure; turn once for low beam, turn again for high beam. This worked, even if there was a half second of complete darkness between the two.
Then one day I took the car to M. Musseau and asked about the indicators, and he showed me that the headlight switch, as well as turning, had a forward and backwards movement. Added to this, the sidelights (ultra low beam) which I didn't even realise I had weren't working at all. I looked at my Traction Avant book and found that indeed, I did have a forward and back. M. Musseau did some work on the switch, but never fully cracked how it should be wired.


The horns work off the same switch, but have been working properly, so I left them alone. According to the scematic this should have left me with 4 wires: 2 green, 1 red, 1 yellow. Instead I had six wires, and an additional red and an additional green.

I have now put the switch back together, and it all works well. Except for the dashboard lights, which go out when I put the headlights on high beam. This means I have another couple of hours of experimentation ahead of me, where I try work out which set of contacts I have wrong - which would be quite fun, and right up my street if I didn't have my mind on other things.
Simon
2 comments:
Simon - I couldn't help but smile to myself knowingly - Been there, done that sprung to mind.
But it is satisfying when you succeed.
Word verification tralia - just needed the OZ.
Leon
Leon: I had a feeling you might have suffered the same "intresting" times.
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