arkus

How do you keep the front headlights up but not on .

Qwik01

turn the headlights on and then back to parking lights. Mine always stay up like that until the parking lights are turned off too.

timritchieblue

turn the swich slowly, the lights will pop up. then turn the switch back to parking.

Mr.Bill

If you want them up with out having the parking lights on I believe you can use the manual **** on each motor.

Jet-Jock

Yep and be prepared to twist and twist and twist LOL. BTW there is a rubber cover that slips over the **** to open and close the lamp door.

Camjamsdad

Add those to the list of things I'm missing.

dgrant3830

That's not going to work either as the headlamp control module will send the command to close them when the ignition is turned off next or I think it will. Also, to get them into the mode the OP requested, everyone who responded is correct but need to tell the OP that if he's got the twighlight sentinel, it needs to be turned off in the DIC

jrose7004

Why would you want them up with the lights off?

EtidW

Turn the lights on engage the emergency brake. When you turn off the ignition the lights should turn off but stay up.

MSG C5

Interesting. I need to try that.

In answer to an earlier post, sometimes I want the lights up after I've turned off the car/ignition in order to remove the light bezels and work on the lights, reach down to the fogs, etc., without having to unhook the negative battery cable or rotate the lights by hand.

I also have ACA HIDs and I think it would be cool to leave them up at shows, etc. without the lights on/up alert dinging...

C5 Erick

You can also turn the headlights on so they pop up and then take the fuse out and turn them back off.

Jistari

<psssssssst <= whispering> . . .the cordless drill with a bare shank fits into the lowering/opening ****, short work to crank em up or down.

TXGS507

that's what i was gonna say...

My car is a canadian export... lights go up automatically when dark.. under overpass, etc... i hate it! Cannot do the twilight thing either...

Like mentioned above, turn the HL on, then rotate to parking..

arkus

I want them up to dry around the sides after a wash .
Thanks for the replys .

MSG C5

I just tried this technique and it works! Lights stay up/off with no dinging after removing the key.

Ding-Ding-Ding....We have a winner!

I love the fact that even after 6 years, I still don't know all the little C5 tricks.

MG RED 99

Be careful you don't get your arms caught in there

MSG C5

Very true. These lights are so quirky in terms of electrical loads signalling them to turn on/off, go up/down, it would probably be a good idea to disconnect the negative battery cable before reaching my hand down there to do some work.

Especially with all the HID/LED mods I've performed.

C5-50th

Whoa, that's a great tip. I want to keep the lights up for cleaning but don't want to run down the battery by leaving the parking lights on. Now I know how. Thanks

04train

I just unplug them

dbgoodwin

Maybe I'm just dumb, but I don't follow the parking brake trick.

If I turn the lights on, engage the parking brake, and cut the car off my lights will stay on. If I turn them to parking lights, they stay up and go off, but the parking lights stay on. If I turn them completely off they go down.