914/6 head light operation Options

[Biggles]

Hi. Can anyone please confirm if the headlights should come up (but not be on) when only the side lights come on? I would have thought they should only come up and be on, when the headlights are on?
It’s a 1970 car if that makes a difference?
Thanks

[toolguy]

Yes. . with stock wiring, headlights come up with headlight switch on position 1 [parking lights only]. .
Note. . in the old days of 914 bras, this was a PITA because if you were driving at dusk and turned on the parking lights, they popped up thru the bra headlight flaps which then waved in the breeze. . simple fix was to move the headlight motor wire from the POS1 to the POS2 connection on the switch. . and wire the fog lights to operate in the POS1 gave you a quasi headlight. .

Another interesting item is the 'headlight flasher' mode. . remember when Porsche drivers said Hello by flashing their headlight in the daytime ?? 914's couldn't because while the flasher worked the headlights even when down, they were in fact down and no one could see. .
simple fix was to rewire the flasher contacts to operate the fog lights instead. . . . some of the useless superfluous info that still clogs my brain. .