Headlights on delay

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 6:29 pm

1990 Beretta GTZ (Manual Transmission)

If the car hasn't been on for a while, when you turn on the headlights they don't immediately turn on, instead, they are on some sort of delay and turn on maybe 30 seconds later.

However if the car has been on, the headlights turn off and on like any other car

I tried searching to see if anyone else has had this problem but no luck

Edit: Fixed spelling

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:36 pm

do they turn on with the car off and is so deleyed or immediately?

IsaacHayes · Post by **IsaacHayes** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:49 pm

Could be a relay going bad.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:34 pm

It looks like the relay just had to warm up, those lights havnt been turned on for 3 years.

Seems to work fine now that we are driving it again, problem solved hopefully

Thanks all

Bluetta · Post by **Bluetta** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:36 pm

This happened quite a bit to us with our berettas. (Mine an the bfs). Both cars sat for quite some time before we bought them, and after driving more often, and using the lights, they work just fine again. Still to this day, if we park the red beretta for more than a few days, it likes to be tempermental.

Vampcrist · Post by **Vampcrist** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:26 am

My 88 As well does a simmilar thing except my headlights are fine but my dash lights come on about 5 to 20 seconds after the lights are on. So I would say it is probably the switch itself as they wear with time and turning on and off they can loose connection and arch. If it bothers you that one day they may just go out I would try to replace your switch and see if that works.

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