DRLs Stopped Working, then Left Lowbeam and Right Highbeam Stopped

netverkin · 02-01-2008, 10:20 PM

Hey Guys,

I have a 2000 SL2 and just hit 104,000 miles. Yay!

I have a weird situation (I think it's weird anyway). During the past week my DRLs just stopped working out of nowhere. When I trigger the keyless entry, I hear the clicking from under the hood, but my high beams/DRLs do not flash. This is fine, since they are not that important (although I like them). My low beams and high beams both continued to work even after the DRLs stopped.

However, I went to the DMV today for inspection. Both my high and low beams worked when I was waiting in the bay to get inspected. They turned off the car, did some voodoo, and now only my right low beam or my left high beam operates. So I failed inspection, lol.

I went home and checked the fuses, both look fine (R headlamp, L headlamp). I even removed the DRL relay and re-seated it. I did not check the the bulbs that do not work yet. I find it hard to believe that a bulb on opposite sides and different fuses could have both blown (I'll check them out later). My friend is coming over later with his Saturn so I can use his DRL relay to test and see if that could be the problem.

Does anyone know why the DRLs would suddenly stop working? How about the left low beam and right high beam?

Thanks for your help!

-Gabe

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Update: I tried another DRL relay and had this did not bring back the DRLs.

netverkin · 02-02-2008, 03:25 PM

Ok here's the situation. Two bulbs blew out. The left low-beam and the right high-beam. I replaced all four of them with some older bulbs I had laying around. When I replaced the high-beams the DRLs started working. Does this normally happen when a bulb is on its way out?

I think when they hooked me up to the machine to read the computer, it caused a surge and they blew. I just find it really odd this happened.

-Gabe

**Ssicarman** · 02-02-2008, 04:15 PM

Hooking up a scan tool to the car will not cause anything bad to happen to the car.
Your bulbs went bad. It happens. There is a chance that the filaments broke loose and were making intermittent contact often enough to make you think that they were working.
Main thing is that you got an easy inexpensive fix to the problem.