pop up not popping up

hereagain · Post by **hereagain** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 7:55 pm

Got the correct Bulbs from Halfords...made no difference

Start car - Driving lights are Bright - bulb warning light on
Turn on pop-ups - warning light goes off driving lights stay bright ( I am sure that they used to dull, although I did clean up contacts.)

If I start car and straight away put pop ups up the warning light acts normal, goes off when I depress brake. ... (Brake you have no friends and you smell lol)

Wierd...but I can live with it

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:38 pm

Right, how it SHOULD be:

Start car, pop ups down. sidelights bright, warning light on.
touch brake, warning light off.

Start car, pop ups UP. sidelights dim warning light on.
touch brake, warning light off.

the warning light will NOT go off till you touch the brake. If it does not go off then, you have a failed bulb/crappy contact somewhere. (usually a crappy contact in the sidelight bulb holders. try testing it before you put the holder back in the light unit)

(i used to play a game at night, to see how far I could travel without making the warning light go off i.e. touching the brake. dangerous, but fun!)

hereagain · Post by **hereagain** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:42 pm

So you think the contacts...I will check again, the lights both shine bright though...although I hope this is all that is wrong. Mine used to act in the way you describe..

MatBat · Post by **MatBat** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 9:17 pm

Chris1roll, I played that game too! I managed to drive accross the city at night from my GF's house to where I lived and stop using the handbrake in my driveway.

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:09 pm

I did it in the same situation too!
5 miles from my g/f house, round three roundabouts (one of them a motorway junction), and several junctions and roll to a halt on my drive using the handbrake.
Using the handbrake anywhere other than on the drive is cheating mind!

as is driving at less than 35mph in a derestricted zone.

volvofox · Post by **volvofox** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:33 pm

ha, i am used to the dark. I used to drive home from a dancing, to scare the sleeping occupants in my car to drive all the way home with no lights on.... Must say it was, like now a full, not clouded moon, and i was allone on the road.

yeeeees, these were the times.......

luck
JPF

DaKyy · Post by **DaKyy** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:43 pm

I had a popup problem few days ago too. The other one would not pop up. Goddam I got angry. WHY THE F**K DOESN'T THE POPUP RISE

- Oh wait, it is up

The problem was: Just got my car clenead, and the top of popup was too clean against the white wall

MatBat · Post by **MatBat** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:58 pm

chris1roll wrote:Using the handbrake anywhere other than on the drive is cheating mind!
as is driving at less than 35mph in a derestricted zone.

I followed all the rules

strangegame · Post by **strangegame** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:27 pm

DaKyy wrote:: Just got my car clenead, and the top of popup was too clean against the white wall

MatBat · Post by **MatBat** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:28 pm

Are you okay to drive? Not registered blind?

Only kidding

Glad your car is in good shape!

C6REW · Post by **C6REW** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:35 pm

Hi Chaps,

Seems a lot of time and money is being spent running around scrappies and motor factors!

I cannot remember how much but they where cheap enough from Volvo. At least you will know you are getting the right ones for the job!

As a matter of interest I was suprised to see a set of wiper blades from Volvo cost Â£9.52 with my Volvo Owners Club discount.

Regards

Chris

C6REW · Post by **C6REW** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:43 pm

Hi Again,

Just spotted second page and all the other comments. Still in a daze having got out of my sick bed.

Like the brake warning light tales and Volvofox like the no lights!

What we used to do was approach a junction at very high speed without having right of way and turn off our lights to see if anyone was coming! No other lights just plough through. Bit of a bugger is someone with the same idea was coming the other way! Think I would have a heart attack if I tried that trick now, back then it was a great adrenaline rush.

Regards

Chris

hereagain · Post by **hereagain** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 4:07 pm

I can beat all of your records for the warning light not going off...I don't want to though!!!!

hereagain · Post by **hereagain** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:29 pm

Was definately a bad connection on one or both bulbs, either that or an incorrectly inserted bulb. Lights all working correctly and the Bulb warning light is behaving like it should. I can now bgin to play that game.....

Cheers for the advise!!!

hereagain · Post by **hereagain** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:04 pm

God Damn Lights!!

One of the bulbs has gone out again...Must be a bad connection again....shucks!!

strangegame · Post by **strangegame** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:12 pm

Looks to me like you are getting there

keep it up and it should be sorted

till the next Gremlin

hereagain · Post by **hereagain** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 7:09 pm

This all started because of a thread here about Xenon Light bulbs being good!!

Yeah, I will get it don but have to wait until the weekend now!!