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Old Aug 24, 2007 | 02:36 PM
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I've been working on an intermittent headlight motor problem for the last couple of weeks and just noticed that when I switch the headlights on, they both rotate up and when halfway up I used to quickly turn the headlight switch to the parking lights so, the headlights would stop halfway up so, I could remove the headlight cover.

Today, I noticed when I switch the headlights on, they rotate up and when quickly switched to the parking lights the headlights won't park halfway up like they used to.

What would cause this? Is the headlight switch bad? Thank you.
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Old Aug 24, 2007 | 03:04 PM
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Not sure, but why not just crank them up manually to remove the cover?
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Old Aug 24, 2007 | 05:19 PM
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I could but, that's not the problem, it's just something I noticed while trouble shooting the intermittent headlight motor problem and thought it could be something related.
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If you can switch the headlights on and off with no problem then the only thing I can think of are the relays.

Could possibly be sticking.

Could be the cause of your intermittent problem.
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I don't know if the 88-96 Vettes use headlight relays because the 88-96 headlight motors work off of a Control Module rather than the three relays the 84-87 Vettes use.

Update: I found in another thread I started that the 88-96 Vettes do not use any Relays for the headlight motors.

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