So I was upgrading my stock headlight on my '06 Buddy 125 with the Halogen version (yes, there is a Halogen for the '06). Just a straight bulb swap.
Works great! Much brighter. The only problem - now the high and low beams are reversed. The switch set on high is the low beam and the low setting is the high beam.
I just have been ignoring the switch setting and using the appropriate beam as needed but does anyone know what's going on? I would hate to have a battery fire or something equally catastrophic just because of a simple bulb change.
I would check the correct installation and correct aim/adjustment of your bulb. The hi/lo switch is obviously fine. If this is an issue with the brand of bulb you bought my guess is you will be able to find other posts about it on the internet.
There is a tab to prevent putting it in upside down. (Yes, I lined it up correctly the first time.) The low beam is wide and low just like you would expect and the high beam is higher and more narrow. In all ways it behaves like it should except that the switch is now backwards.
I think you nailed it with the polarity comment. There are after market kits to convert older Jeeps (around 2006-7) to halogen. Many have issues with swapping the high and low beam. The fix is to rearrange the pins in the headlamp because the ballast polarity is reversed.
A full halogen setup has a ballast where an incandescent setup does not. My guess is that the ballast is incorporated into the bulb and is installed as opposite polarity of what I need.
If the fix is to change the pin location, then I could
1) swap the wires on the switch, or
2) change the way I use the switch.
So far I have been using Option 2. No reason I can't keep doing that unless it really starts bugging me. I'm just glad to know it won't damage the scoot.
This happened with the HID kit for our 97 Jetta too.... now it's just stuck on high beams... works for us, sucks for everyone else.
We tried reversing the wires, changing the position of the pegs coming out of the bulb, to no avail. High beams or nothin.
Nope. Had it in there almost a year now and it works great.
Just the switch issue but it was easier to reprgram my brain the the high beam light on the intrument panel is really low beam than all the other alternatives.
