I have finally moved into the new house and gotten most things where I want them so there's no excuse to not be working on the car now. I had been stuck for so long on the headlights not working I was shirking from going back and debugging it. I spent a little time on the phone with Factory Five and they gave me some great pointers. First they made me realize that what I had thought was the headlight high beam switch was the hazard switch and that when I flipped it and my turn signals got brighter it was the second filament in the turn signals coming on and not flashing. They said swap the hazard and turn signal flashers and viola, my hazards flashed and my turn signals didn't work. So they're sending me one more working flasher. The flashers are the shiny cylinders in the fuse box.
Next, the headlights won't work at all unless there is a high beam switch installed. The switch is up or down and one position completes a circuit with the brown high beam wire and high beam indicator (blue dash light) and the other position completes a circuit with the red low beam wire. I didn't even have a hole in the dash for this switch! So since I had already laid other switches out uniformly and this would clearly be a one off if it were anywhere within reach I decided to put it inside the wheel. It isn't in the way of my hands and I can switch it by extending a finger from the wheel without taking my hand off the wheel which I thought was nice.
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