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cannesdo
Explorer
Jul 25, 2014

Will lightning make your vehicle headlights turn on?

We had a doozy of a storm today and it felt for a few minutes like it was right on top of us. A few strikes felt very close...and my neighbor said at one point their car lights came on and then my tr...
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MrWizard
Moderator
Jul 25, 2014
No it did Not strike your vehicle
If it did , you would be posting about taking to your insurance company

What it did do, was induce/create a current in the circuits that turned on the head light relay control, and then the control turned off at it's normal time out sequenced time was reached

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