Headlight issue....Need Help!

[dhutton]

You can wire up the headlights directly to the bulb, just swap the postive to the common terminal of the bulbs and the switched grounds to the low beam and high beam terminals. The fog (parking) lights will be a different story since they have a grounded shell. You will need to use relays as Carl suggested. The side markers are not grounded so you can used them directly as they are.

[SamHatco]

got them working! Here is what I did. Like I said previously I wired the high beam wire to one side of the high beam light and one of the wht/blk wires to the other side of the light. I then wired the low beam wire to the center prong of the low beam light and used the other wht/blk wire to the high beam prong of the low beam light (does that make sense?). So basically both lights are wires separately. Crossed my fingers (thats the important part) and turn on the switch. BINGO! lights. Like Carl picked up on the switch controls the ground to complete the circuit. Even though I have constant power to the lights, without the ground switched on nothing happens. I read somewhere that the new cars rely on switched negatives on relays, instead of switched positives on switches like the old days. Supposed to safer and more efficient. Anyway it works, my low beams are brighter since they are always on high and the high beams appear to brighter also.

Whew, glad that worked out. I was worried I was going to have to reinvent the wheel, so to speak, to make them work.

Sam