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Without doing a "hands on" troubleshooting of your vehicle, no one can tell you what specific defect is causing your problem. Therefore this answer will of necessity be of a generic nature.
Usually, IF the fuse is "good," this type of problem is caused by what is called an "open circuit"condition.
Open circuits can be caused by several things, a few of which I can recall now:
- A disconnected connector [or splice] anywhere in the circuit.
- Corrosion or road film buildup on the contacts inside a connector.
- Corrosion in the metal "socket" the lamp [light bulb] is inserted into.
- A cut or broken wire in the circuit including the ground wire between the lamp socket and the grounded car body sheet metal.
- If complete and proper troubleshooting of the dysfunctional circuit does not reveal any of the above as causal, then it could be that a switch or relay is defective.
The "proper fix" is for someone who knows what he or she is doing to troubleshoot the nonfunctional circuit, find and identify the specific defect, and properly repair it.
Because this defect is causing more than one lighting circuit to be non-functional, I would begin my trouble shooting with the fuse for the main lights, including all connectors between the fuse location and the headlight switch., and the connector on the "output" of the switch.
IF all of that curcuit checks out OK then I would be suspect of the headlight switch itself. But because of the cost of the headlight switch I would NOT replace it until I was absolutely positive that it was defective!!!!!
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