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I'd say bad earth somewhere and your driving lights are earthing back through something they aren't supposed to.
Try disconnecting your driving lights and see if your standard high beams also cause the same issue. Check all your earth cables for your headlights/driving lights and battery. Make sure they are really done up tight with no corrosion, etc.
Haven't seen the prob before but that's what it sounds like to me ... oh, and fire your auto elec, he sux!
Maybe run an earth between the body and the chassis?-the lack of a good earth has caused problems in some GU's. My fuel gauge used to sit at 1/4
when I towed a van with a hot wire for fridge? Earth wire fixed it! Have heard elsewhere about probs as well.
Jok
all thoughs electric on and then it cuts out? , if it was an altenater fault it would not restart, flat battrey. this to me seems like an earth fault. are the spot lights earthed with there own earth wire to the body/battrey, or just the single wire to the light and then earth through the bull bar to no where. these need a earth leed from the chassis to the body, try that first, cheers Phill.
I had almost the same problem last yeah, traveling though the outback, I flicked on the driving lights, sometime later I notice I'm almost out of fuel!! Had full tanks that morning and only done 120klms. Flick off the driving lights sometime later, and my missing fuel returns!!!
I put the problem to the pannel on here and it was suggested it was an earthing problem between the bull bar and the chassis and body.
It was not untill I modified my bar to take a winch that the problem stopped, as I got off my backside and earthed the bar properly throught the chassis and then on to the body.
Yeah it's a GU too.
God made reverse for tailgaters!!
But the white light is me!!
My GU had the wobbles, pulled the bottom shim out of the pre-loads in the wheel bearings(Pedders idea), worked a treat, no wobbles since,
about 50,000k ago.
Jok
White '99 GU 4.2D DX Wagon,
with a couple of add-ons
have you checked ecu earths??
or whether or not your getting volt drop when all your lights are on to you computer or gas system
i would be checking them aswell
Hey jok my GU does same as you described, when the van is pluged in and fridge on the fuel gauge reads 1/4. It has shit me for 8 years, you say earth body to chassie better. Gunna try this.
