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Sep 6, 2014 | 09:15 PM

dglad

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headlights not working

Went golfing today and drove the vette on the way home started getting dark so went to turn on headlights but nothing happened. The lights work but neither headlight would rotate they worked fine yesterday there is no noise from either motor.

Sep 7, 2014 | 01:13 AM

John A. Marker

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You can twist the **** on the side of the headlight until the rotate up. Takes forever, but they will come up.

Sep 7, 2014 | 01:17 AM

Cliff Harris

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What year is the car?

It make a MAJOR difference. There were MANY changes to the headlight motor setup over the years.

Sep 7, 2014 | 11:04 AM

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After you tell us what year car you have, you can then get specific information. Do you have any documentation for the car?

It can be anything from a bad headlight switch, headlight motor controller, fuse or bad pin connection.

Sep 7, 2014 | 11:38 AM

John A. Marker

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Just looked at his profile.....says it is a 2000. So he either posted in the wrong section or he has another car.

Member since 2007. You would think that the car year would be secondary information in any post for an "old timer".

Sep 7, 2014 | 02:38 PM

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My apologies my car is a 95 also have a 2000 but the 95 headlights quit working messed with them a little last night got them somewhat working before they didn't do anything now the right goes all the way up and the left halfway.

Sep 8, 2014 | 02:42 AM

Cliff Harris

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Originally Posted by dglad

You probably have bushings that have been ground into dust. VERY common problem on later C4s. Here's a video that shows how to fix it:

Sep 8, 2014 | 02:01 PM

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You probably have bushings that have been ground into dust. VERY common problem on later C4s.

Normally I would say that this is a good way to go. But he stated in post 1, "no noise from either motor".

Normally if the bushings are worn down, the motor can run with lots of noise and the headlights might be hopping up a bit.

I would also like clarity of this statement, "messed with them a little last night got them somewhat working before they didn't do anything".

What exactly did you do, did the motor run with the head light switch turned to ON?

Headlight modules don't go bad that frequently. I have read more posts where the switch in the headlight switch assembly go bad (open up) and don't sent the signal to the module. This would concur only if the motors weren't trying to move or getting any voltage at all.