# Car Lights mixed up! please help **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [March 21, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-lights-mixed-up-please-help/161454 "2020-03-21T07:41:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diarmuid\_Gallagher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Diarmuid\_Gallagher](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Diarmuid_Gallagher)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-lights-mixed-up-please-help/161454/1 "2020-03-21T07:41:13Z")
Hi guys just wondering would anyone be able to give me any ideas on my problem, The problem is I changed two headlight bulbs yesterday and then when I went to turn them on the wrong lights were coming on… Dips come on when I put on headlights etc… fog lights now aren’t even coming on at all? Rear lights are all fine. Any ideas??? ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-lights-mixed-up-please-help/161454/2 "2020-03-21T09:13:56Z")
What kind and year of car, were the bulb numbers the same and what is a dip? ---
**Author:** ![Diarmuid\_Gallagher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Diarmuid\_Gallagher](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Diarmuid_Gallagher)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 10:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-lights-mixed-up-please-help/161454/3 "2020-03-21T10:04:32Z")
2012 Mk 3 Ford Focus. Sorry I mean low beam… it’s all mixed up with the high beam and fog lights won’t work at all… And yea the bulbs were the same match H7 for H7… 🥺 ---
**Author:** ![Diarmuid\_Gallagher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Diarmuid\_Gallagher](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Diarmuid_Gallagher)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 10:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-lights-mixed-up-please-help/161454/4 "2020-03-21T10:24:15Z")
It’s just very frustrating now because it makes no sense to me ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 11:08am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-lights-mixed-up-please-help/161454/5 "2020-03-21T11:08:54Z")
I assume you are not in the US, our 2012 Focus takes H1 high beams and H11 low beams. This forum is mostly us based. ---
**Author:** ![Diarmuid\_Gallagher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Diarmuid\_Gallagher](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Diarmuid_Gallagher)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-lights-mixed-up-please-help/161454/6 "2020-03-21T11:36:42Z")
Ah okay thanks, Any idea why something like that might happen though? Every light is working bar the high and Low beams it’s doing my head now ---
**Author:** ![shanonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@shanonia](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shanonia)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-lights-mixed-up-please-help/161454/7 "2020-03-21T14:27:35Z")
Could the problem be in the dimmer switch - on some cars called multifunction switch? I had one do screwy things on a Chrysler minivan a few years ago. Opened it up, cleaned it out, and it’s been fine. Not all that expensive to buy new, as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-lights-mixed-up-please-help/161454/8 "2020-03-21T16:23:32Z")
It may be there was nothing with your old headlight bulbs. With a test light or multimeter, see lf there is power to the sockets.