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Old 12-13-2018, 08:47 AM
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Put a new battery in yesterday morning in my 98 xj as the old one was completely dead.I just noticed today that my running lights stay on. I suppose it's a good assumption that the switch is bad, but I was wondering if there may be some other issue someone here has ran across.
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check for melted plug on back of headlight switch
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x2 on the switch, let us know. Other thing comes to mind I had the same problem last week on my zj, which does use a totally different headlight switch btw, but the problem was water on the fuseblock in the passenger footwell had toasted the whole fuse block. Junkyard for that and all is well.
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Many thanks.I will check along both of those lines. I did have about 14 inches of snow. Of course the lights are not on this morning.
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