High Beams Not Working All The Time

[kimokalihi]

My high beams are only working sometimes. It started out where they would take a second to turn on. You'd switch from low beam to high beam and it would go dark and then a second later they would turn on and be fine. But now tonight I get in my car and they won't work at all. Finally 15 mins into the drive I finally got them to come on but then a car came by and I turned them back to the low beams and after that they won't turn on again.

 

What is going on?

 

A little background first. When I got the car 3 years ago I noticed someone had done something to the wiring for the headlights and did a terrible job by not soldering and using a cheap crimp connection and no heatshrink leaving the wires exposed and rusted out. Plus they had some red wire running across the engine bay and through the firewall. I have yet to trace that to see where it goes. I removed all that crappy wiring job and rewired them to the stock wiring using solder and heat shrink so I know the connection is solid.

 

Perhaps whoever did that to my car did it because they couldn't figure out why it was doing this with the high beams? I never had a problem with them before I rewired them. They're brand new bulbs too.

 

Any ideas for where to start?

[Legacy777]

I'd start at the relays and see if your getting the signal from the stalk telling the relays the high beams should be on.

 

By the way, what model & year?

[nipper]

clean your grounds, and i would suspect the relays.

 

nipper

[kimokalihi]

This is on a 90 Legacy AWD Wagon automatic.