Headlight fail, high beam blue light is on?

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Headlight fail, high beam blue light is on?

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Hi guys, when I turn on my headlights, the rear lights come on but nothing at the front, and for some reason the blue light (high beam) is on (on the dash. I think I've checked all the fuses in the dash, would it be associated to any of the relay boxes?

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For me it was an earth fault.
Check the earthcrowns behind the fuse box. I had water ingress dropping down from a perished windscreen seal.
Cleaned them up and everything worked again.
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Also check your bulbs! My sidelight one had gone and the lighting went all squ-iff and the high beam light came on. Changed the bulb and all went back to normal.
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I second the earth fault having just been in the same situation with high beam indicator lit but no headlights switching on.
I cleaned up the common earth going to crown and all worked again.

I did however have more than one fault on the circuit including high resistant across light switch.
Earth and high beam wires on the H4 connectors were the wrong way round.
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I third earth fault - mine behaved like that when the earth connection at the bulb crimp was badly corroded.
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