Thanks to everyone for the excellent guidance. After determining that it was not a ground problem, (by connecting from the hot terminal of the low beam fuse directly to the lamps and getting them both to go on), it seemed to come down to the shunt or relay in the CEM. Sure enough, after re-reading t...

Couple of days ago, I got a "Dipped Beam Failure" alert on my 2001 V70 and both low beam headlights weren't working. After turning the ignition off and then on again, the alert disappeared and the lights were on again, for a couple of days. Then the same alert appeared and lights were out,...