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What does PASS and DRIVE mean on the back of my headlight connectors?
eznfrank - 5/6/10 at 10:33 AM

As above, I would have thought that PASS was main beam as in flash and DRIVE would be dipped but PASS is at the top and DRIVE is on the right hand side as you look from the back, which doesn't seem to make sense according to this diagram on a previous post??



[Edited on 5/6/10 by eznfrank]

mangogrooveworkshop - 5/6/10 at 10:40 AM

Dip equals pass
Drive equals high beam.

Pass as in don't blind the traffic coming towards you Must of been a bunch of Chinese fraudsters who thought that one up lol

eznfrank - 5/6/10 at 10:42 AM

How very backwards.

Cheers mate

davestarck - 5/6/10 at 11:24 AM

quote:
Originally posted by eznfrank
How very backwards.

Cheers mate


I would have said that drive = low beam as in normal driving and pass = high beam as in flash to pass. Just my thoughts though don't know for certain

eznfrank - 5/6/10 at 11:26 AM

Yeah that's what I thought but apparently not?

jollygreengiant - 5/6/10 at 11:27 AM

OR they could mean,....

PASSenger side,

DRIVErs side.

SteveWalker - 5/6/10 at 01:07 PM

quote:
Originally posted by davestarck
quote:
Originally posted by eznfrank
How very backwards.

Cheers mate


I would have said that drive = low beam as in normal driving and pass = high beam as in flash to pass. Just my thoughts though don't know for certain


I would say that high beam is "normal" driving. If you are driving along an unlit road at night, you'd normally use high beam, only dropping to dipped beam when you'd risk dazzling someone - ie. when you are about to pass someone (in either direction).

We only think of dipped beam as normal because in this crowded country with lots of street-lit areas, we are used to not being able to use high beam for much of the time. Think back to when there were fewer cars on the road and fewer street lights and people would quite likely have used high beam more than dipped!

spiderman01980 - 5/6/10 at 01:31 PM

grab a battery and test them!!
have you got a pic of the head lights?
some motorbikes have a passing switch wich is labled pass wich is used to fash the headlights, but then that is wired with the HI and LO switch not to the head lights but the HI and LO is connected to the headlight, hope this makes any sense and that it helps you!

spiderman01980 - 5/6/10 at 01:41 PM

here`s a pic

spiderman01980 - 5/6/10 at 01:53 PM

quote:
Originally posted by SteveWalker
quote:
Originally posted by davestarck
quote:
Originally posted by eznfrank
How very backwards.

Cheers mate


I would have said that drive = low beam as in normal driving and pass = high beam as in flash to pass. Just my thoughts though don't know for certain


I would say that high beam is "normal" driving. If you are driving along an unlit road at night, you'd normally use high beam, only dropping to dipped beam when you'd risk dazzling someone - ie. when you are about to pass someone (in either direction).

We only think of dipped beam as normal because in this crowded country with lots of street-lit areas, we are used to not being able to use high beam for much of the time. Think back to when there were fewer cars on the road and fewer street lights and people would quite likely have used high beam more than dipped!


That makes a lot of sense never thought of it that way, so the PASS wire would be the dipped light and the DRIVE would be the full beam!