Is this normal?

[Pipdore]

Hi, my son has just bought a Peugeot Speedfight 3 125cc from a dealer on eBay. It’s been recently MOTed and seems to work well, but I’d like someone to tell me if the lights are normal please.

When the lights are on lowbeam (dip), only one headlight comes on and when you switch to ‘dazzle’, the first one turns off and the other headlight comes on, so at no point do the front headlights come on together. Is this normal?

Any advice would be really helpful before we start fiddling around with the bulbs. Thank you 😊

[pepperami]

Good morning.
Try posting this in the workshop section.
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[Pipdore]

Ah yes, that would make sense. Thank you 😊

[davebike]

Common set up several bikes use two light one dip one main
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[TheGazWaz]

Yes this is normal.

Most bikes past 2001 that have two headlight pods will have one for dipped beam and one for main beam.

My Bandit 1200 had it and I got so sick of people telling me I had a headlight out I found a fix. By just adding a £4 really, both lights came on for dipped and main beam.

This is because they both have the same bulb but are only utilising one part of it.

Maybe there's a similar fix for yours.
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