Hi all- you've led me on the right direction many times so I come again for advice.
My girlfriend is having electrical gremlins in her 2015 renegade. I fixed the last one, as shown in this thread:
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/2015-jeep-renegade-taillight-ground-corrosion/181824/page1/#post3221877
Anyways, she is now (and I'm getting answers since I'm out of state from her) having problems with her high beams. They won't stay on- but will stay on if she holds the stalk back. so, electrically, they work. This makes me think it is a problem with the stalk- somehow the circuit is not complete without her pulling on the stalk.
Am I missing something? Anything else I should be looking for?
Thanks!
If it were a Volvo, I'd tell you to turn the headlamp switch on. There is a couple of decades worth of them that use the main headlamps for the DRL's, and the only thing that doesn't work in "Off" is the high beams.
High beam stalk isn't the more modern two position up for low beam, down for high beam, pull to flash for pass? She hasn't just forgotten how high beams work, like 87% of the drivers I encounter every morning?
Sounds like a switch to me.
Does she expect that pulling the stalk back, all the way, will toggle on the high beams? But, instead, when pulling the stalk back the high beams will only stay on for as long as she hold the stalk?
If so, try pushing the stalk forward, firmly. This might be the intended maneuver to activate the high beams.
The pull back motion is just for a flash-to-pass function. Hence the reason she has to hold the stalk in place to keep the high beams on.
Just a guess but I have seen other cars that require this moving forward of the stalk.
Edit: Yep, video proof...
In reply to Streetwiseguy :
I'll double check that she has the settings correct, but I don't think she's done that.
thank you!
In reply to John Welsh :
Lol no she's got that figured out- she's been driving this one for years.
and I asked her "how do they work", and she explained it correctly.
