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XK8 Headlight (switch?) issue

Old Aug 30, 2015 | 09:36 PM
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I took my beautiful wife in my beautiful new Jag for a moonlight drive last night - first night drive.
Didn't work out so well.

I found several problems (will work with the seller to resolve them). I'd like some input about the main one.

Headlights:
In Auto mode, the headlights come on properly, but turn off when I switch the turn signal.
In regular headlight mode, the headlights did one of several things:
When switching from Hi-beam to Lo-beam the lights would dim significantly right after the switch.
OR (more disturbingly) a few moments after switching to Lo-beam the headlights would turn off. Completely. And then come back on. Pretty disturbing.
I'm not positive as to whether the headlights turned off when just left on low beams - we drove home on Hi-beams (sorry to the few other drivers I met) because the Hi-beams stayed on and the Lo-beams would flip off and on.

Any help with this would be very, very welcome. My thought would be something in the light/turnsignal switch, but I dunno...

The other issues - interior lights.
Several controls were only partially lit. I'm guessing that's a bulb replacement job.
The temperature panel (where you adjust the heat or cooling) was not lit at all, so it was a matter of "click it a few times until it feels right".

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this (pun intended).
 
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Old Aug 31, 2015 | 04:53 AM
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The turn signal stalk has been known to pinch wires and have a short or loose connector, it's easy it open up, two screw under the cowl and the top/bottom pieces behind steering wheel will come apart, you can then 'view' the situation.
Do a search on bulbs or look at the DIY sticky thread, it will have links on how to change/check the other lights.
 
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