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low beams.

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Hello fellas, we meet again, my submarine recently had a very stupid issue, both my low beams went out, thought its a fuse, started checking because diagrams do not exist and i drooped one, bricked my car, fixed that. Now from what i read online its most likely a relay ishue, what im more puzzled from, most people say its sothered and electrical shops want to change the whole module. (citroen c5 II 2006 hatch 2.0hdi 6s auto) 1st, where is it located and which one is it. 2nd, is it realy sotherd in, 3th i need it fixed in abt 2 3 days so i cant afford much dilly dally. any help is much appreciated. thanks in advance.
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Re: low beams.

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Have a read through this thread which may point you in the right direction :)

https://citroen-owners-club.co.uk/citro ... t-working/
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A daft question, have you checked the bulbs ?
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PaulC5 wrote: 26 Jun 2026, 12:35 A daft question, have you checked the bulbs ?
Actually not needed, one was swapped fairly recently so its very unlikely they bout died at the same time, also, i saw them go out at the same time, i parked, went to the car, pressed the button to put on the lights, they didn't come on, didn't think much of it,few days after, i finally drove in dark and than it clicked that something is wrong. So bulbs shouldn't be the issue beyond a reasonable concern.
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Without checking the bulbs or at least one of them, you could be wasting a lot of time looking for something else. Bulbs probably fail when being switched on so it is possible they both failed at once, especially if they are cheap ones or old.
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PaulC5 wrote: 26 Jun 2026, 21:37 Without checking the bulbs or at least one of them, you could be wasting a lot of time looking for something else. Bulbs probably fail when being switched on so it is possible they both failed at once, especially if they are cheap ones or old.
Update, decided to go look, they were both blown, i swapped them and it worked, there is probably a deeper issue at play, but im soon leaving to work on a ship, i needed them cuz i need to travel cross the country and its mandatory you have day lights or low beams on, so when im back, ill have a professional go over the electrical and check for faults. Thanks a lot to everyone that again helped me out, have a great day or night and see you again soon. Love y'all.
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Excellent. I only mentioned it as I recall somebody thinking both of theirs failed at the same time as they had not noticed one failed earlier.