Hi/Lo beam switching

[Alfaoldgit]

Hi all.
Simple question, does the S3 Sprint headlamp plastic stalk switch operate in the same way as the earlier S1/S2 metal stalk switch. My S2 car has been retrofitted with S3 switch but I want to put it back to original. I "think" someone has messed with the headlamp wiring & put a non latching relay in a spare slot in the fusebox.

AOG

[Gary Orchard]

The later chrome bumper sprints had the S3 switch from new so it may not have been retrofitted.
I had a Y registered sprint and that had the S3 switch (originally the switch was brown plastic rather than black plastic like the saloon & Ti models)
I think the only extra thing that gave you was intermittent windscreen wipe so see if you have the relay for intermittent wipe fitted.

[Alfaoldgit]

Ah ha! So I have a brown plastic switch & there's a timer relay on the l/h scuttle. My car is a Y reg which fits in with what you say. Pity, the metal stalk switch is much neater. I presume the hi/low beam switching is the same (pull for high beam, pull again for low beam with h'lamps turned on, pull to flash with h'lamps turned off).

[Gary Orchard]

I think that to select high beam you press the end of the stalk and the button pops out
To flash them you pull the stalk back

[Alfaoldgit]

Had the fusebox apart today. Memory is waking up....my X reg Sprint had the metal stalk switch & all the headlamp switching was done by relays in the f/b. A few years later I had a Y reg Sud GC, the relays were gone, the headlamp switching was directly on the stalk switch, a really dumb idea. Sure enough I was plunged into darkness on several occasions because the terminals on the switch assy had worked loose (tubular rivets through plastic, great idea). I ended up soldering all the terminals. It seems my resurrection Sprint has the same set up
I may modify by installing relays to manage the power to the headlamps, plenty of unused slots in the fusebox!