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Thanks for your feedback. I ended up going through all the fuses and connections at lunch yesterday. I found that the twist-on connection for the ballast (red connector) had come loose but hadn't entirely fallen off. I tightened this back up and the headlight works perfectly again. Very satisfying fix, especially given the high costs of Xenon headlight parts. Also, as an engineer, I'd like to applaud Porsche for designing the headlights to be so easy to work on. The pop-out mechanism is brilliant.
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Last night, I was driving home and had to slam on my brakes when the person in front of me stopped short. In doing so, my driver's side headlight (both high and low beams) went out! I'm quite sure that both worked immediately beforehand because my car had just been driven to me by the valet (very common in Houston) and I didn't notice anything off about it when I did the walk-around. The passenger's side headlight still works on both levels. This past fall, I replaced the headlight switch with a used one after my headlights began flickering/not turning on (both headlights) and that had solved the issue. By the way, this is on a 2002 Porsche Boxster S with litronic headlights. Has anyone encountered this problem? Could it be the headlight switch, or is that unlikely given that only one side has gone out? I'm thinking that the bulb may have shifted under heavy inertial load so I'll be checking fuses and the bulb today at lunch. Thanks for your input.