Headlight Confusion!!

[marcusfarnfield]

Dear all,
bizarre one for you...
The van has been behaving itself perfectly for the first 2500 miles of our trip but, after a week of being left in a garage, the headlights have started playing up..
here's the story..

left and right here are as you look at the van from head on (sorry i know thats confusing!)

with the ignition off:
side light position works as expected
dipped beam position: left side sidelight only. right side full beam
full beam position: left side full beam and right side, side only (opposite of dipped position)

With the ignition on..
side light position. left side sidelight right side dipped
diped position: left side sidelight. right side fll beam
full beam position: left full right sides.

we are a little flummoxed. we have waded throught the wiring diagrams in the ol' haynes and we think we are getting somewhere but we dont really want to have her in bits in some carpark in croatia too many times in the next few days!!
the van is an 89 model rascal so am i right in thinking that that the diagram to use is the one without a cat converter??

many thanks for your help as ever,

Marcus

[TITCH]

Earths, definately earths!!

[Pirate]

Could be the light switch stalk, they have been known to play up, check for bad earths & fuses first.
Yes your van will be the not cat wiring diagram, hope this helps.

[>>CHOP<<]

are there any signs of it being tampered with..if not im with titch ..bad earths...circuit tester is a good invesment..

[teaspoon]

was it abducted by aliens,,,, probed and not put back together by them properly






or its a bad earth,, ?

[miniman andy]

i have got that problem with my subaru...that i need to take half the front end off to do, and i know that is an earth on the drivers side.
ether way it amused me for a while pretending to be a copper lol..without the blue lights people still moved over haha!!

all good fun now i got a rascal as off yesterday and love it!! i just wish it would start. but im getting there due to you guys  on other threads. 
since im a total newbie here i need to find somewhere where i can say hello. see you about here soon.

[noah1966]

this might sound daft .. but check out the back lights aswell .had similar problem once an it turnedout to be in the back light . good luck with it

[Turnip lover]

I also had a very similar problem and It also turned out to be a bad earth with my fog light that for some reason messed up my headlights! If you added any new interior lights to the van for your trip check them over as well as I´m sure that was the root of my problem. My van was wired up by a complete monkey.  Good luck!