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Ok i went and got my c210 roadworthied today, he was happy with majority bar: gearstick boot cover(forgot to put it on...), play in front door and the centre 2 lights not working, first 2 are an easy fix but the lights have me puzzled. Are these meant to come on when you pull the highbeam switch im not sure if theres a stuffed relay or something or if me and the mechanic were pressing the wrong buttons, any help would be great:)

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As Socs says, pull the control stalk towards you to flash your high beams. As soon as you release the control stalk it goes back to centre and the high beams go off again. If you push the stalk away from you it should stay in position and the high beams should stay on, and you should get a blue light on your dash.

First, replace the fuse.

Then, you can test if the inner sealed beams (high beam) are dead by unplugging the cables at the back of the high beam and swapping them over to your (outer) low beams. If the low beams work when you pull on the control stalk then you know that the switch and fuse etc are all fine, it's just the sealed beam that has given up. The sealed beams from memory are a generic item from Bursons/ebay etc (5 and 3/4 inch?) and only three screws to remove and replace.

Good luck.

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Got it all sorted today, it was just the lights were blown, got some from a mates 200b and voila there was light. I thought it may have been user error as on 180bs you need to turn all sorts of knobs and shit to make the lights work but this is much simpler, i shall be registering the old girl tomorrow:)

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