High beam and pass light won't work

[The Tot]

I've only noticed it after coming back on my tour of the south coast that my Pass light switch does not cause my beam to flash onto high-beam, and also that when i switch onto High beam, the bulbs turn off.

I've checked the fuses and all i can say is that they're intact. It's fine for the time being because it doesn't get dark until much later but is there any other way to diagnose such problems. I doubt replacing the bulbs will work as they're fine at dipped beam.

The bike's a ZXR250 so controls will be similar to other ZXR's. Any help will be much appreciated.
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The Tot 2019 Z1000SX - 2007 R1
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[Phil_G]

you say the fuse is okay, but are the contacts all clean?

failing that - do you know for certain that the high beam fillaments in the bulbs arent banjaxed? I used to work for a motorfactors and once had a lady comein with a *shudders* volvo that had both its dipped beams fail simultaneously! Could be something that simple!

Phil
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[G]

Quite possible that both the high beam filaments could have gone, so I'd check this first.

I'd have a quick check of the obvious connections while you're there.
Next step would probably be to get the switch gear apart and poke about with a multimeter.

[Nath]

As above. Get a multimeter, check the bulbs. If the main beam filaments are good, then you've got to start tracing the connection and find out whereabouts you have +12v.
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