( Nissan Note 2019 ) High Beam headlights switch not working properly

[andyr123]

Hi there - Nissan Note 2019 with automatic high beam assist .

cannot get the Headlights to stay on Hi Beam . Got to pull the beam steering stalk as if flashing main beam or push and hold stalk forward to switch on main beams .


Have checked fuses , and in any case if it were a blown fuse for High Beam lights they would not work surely? the High beam light bulbs do come on with the main headlights if push the stalk towards windscreen but then , should not have to hold the stalk forward. I thought it weird that the stalk does not click and hold the stalk in place when you let go it just goes back to middle position , but then i see that the other Note cars do this , so I am thinking it must be some kind of latching relay on the high beam side of things maybe? - if so I wonder where to look for relay?

thanks,
Andy.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Sounds like its the switch at fault

You can get high beam if you hold the switch in "flash" ?

And can get high beam by pulling and holding it in "main beam position" ?

 

[Burnerman]

I think you have a relay that isn't latching....trouble is identifying which one?
Usually they are under the bonnet in the main fuse box, but others are under a cover at the end of the dash and even more under the glove box.
Unless you can get specific advice from the Note owners forum I think I'd be visiting an auto electrician for this one - he should have the data required to trace it.
John

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I think you have a relay that isn't latching....trouble is identifying which one?
Usually they are under the bonnet in the main fuse box, but others are under a cover at the end of the dash and even more under the glove box.
Unless you can get specific advice from the Note owners forum I think I'd be visiting an auto electrician for this one - he should have the data required to trace it.

On modern vehicles, the latching would be done by the lighting control module, or LSM - the relay, would just be a normal relay. I would suspect the column switch itself, perhaps sending two pulses, due to wear. The first switch to high beam, the second, in error, causing it to dip.

 

[securespark]

I'm a bit out of date, but a similar fault in my Mum's D86 Nissan Micra Colette was down to a faulty relay. IIRC, most non-Jap cars in the 80s and 90s did high beam by a switch holding in that position, Jap cars did it by spring loaded switches triggering a relay operating high beam.

Things have changed with modules for everything.

 

[andyr123]

Sounds like its the switch at fault

You can get high beam if you hold the switch in "flash" ?

And can get high beam by pulling and holding it in "main beam position" ?

Yep can get main beam only by pushing and holding switch forward , or pulling switch back as if flashing someone - if I let go the switch returns to middle and high beam bulbs turn off

 

[baldykev]

Auto high beam systems use a type of camera to detect light source, on coming cars etc.. And switches it on high or dip for you.
Check that the camera is clean ,connections are good . Most are behind interior mirror some behind front grill
Google it as there is a lot of help under this topic
good luck

 

[andyr123]

Auto high beam systems use a type of camera to detect light source, on coming cars etc.. And switches it on high or dip for you.
Check that the camera is clean ,connections are good . Most are behind interior mirror some behind front grill
Google it as there is a lot of help under this topic
good luck

its not just the HBA (high beam assist) that has the problem though. I can live without HBA, its the fact that when at night to get the High Beams to come on I have to push the stalk and hold it there to have high beam