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Old Sep 11, 2006 | 01:18 AM
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went out to eat tonight and after dinner it is almost dark and after it gets dark i noticed the headlights didnot look right, low and behold the left headlight was not open...what to do? easy fix or hard fix?...thanks...
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it's probably a gear failure in the motor. pretty easy fix.
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Old Sep 11, 2006 | 08:22 AM
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went out to eat tonight and after dinner it is almost dark and after it gets dark i noticed the headlights didnot look right, low and behold the left headlight was not open...what to do? easy fix or hard fix?...thanks...
Try to wind it up manually. If its a gear problem that should move the broken teeth around and reengage the good part of the gear. If it makes a grinding noise when you operate the headlight switch thats your culprit.

Look at Leaftye's sticky at the top of C5 Gen and run down to headlight gears. That describes the problem and the fix.

If there's no noise at all and the motor's not running you have a separate issue.
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Old Sep 11, 2006 | 08:48 AM
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What others have said. Take a look at this thread.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...DIY&forum_id=1
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