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I've noticed an irritating "feature" of the headlights in many Chrysler vehicles. My old 1993 Dodge Caravan, and my parents 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2000 Grand Caravan all had the same issue. It seems the headlights have three levels of brightness. Low beam, high beam, and even brighter than high beam. Pull the lever for high beam and it goes to the brightest and immediately back down to the "normal" high beams.
Why on earth would the normal high beam setting be anything but the brightest? Seems stupid to me. The only way to keep the lights at the brightest setting is to hold the lever back.
It's that split second when you hit the dimmer....both high and low bulbs are burning before one or the other are going out. Lots of other makes do the same thing.
I think what's actually going on here is that your headlight switch has developed high resistance, the dimmer lever bypasses the switch. My Scirocco does this.
The fix, if you want to make a fix, is to put the headlights on relays.
As already posted, it's normal. Both high and low beams are on at the same time. Used to have a Mazda pickup that you could hold both beams on with the lever.
Yeah, I think I had a car like this... I think it was was my 1998 Ford Taurus.
My aunt has a 1998 Plymouth Voyager that has this... I know what the OP is talking about... its when both high and low beam bulbs are on.
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