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Old Jun 13, 2006 | 08:36 AM
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My headlights pop up now when I turn on the parking lights. When I turn off the lights, they go down, but there's a grinding sound for a few seconds coming from the passenger side.
I had anticipated having to change the headlight gears at some point, but I'm not sure that is what's wrong. They go up and down fine. It's just that they shouldn't pop up with only the parking lights on and the grinding sound when they go down.

Anyone else experience this?
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Old Jun 13, 2006 | 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by 99 FRC
My headlights pop up now when I turn on the parking lights. When I turn off the lights, they go down, but there's a grinding sound for a few seconds coming from the passenger side.
I had anticipated having to change the headlight gears at some point, but I'm not sure that is what's wrong. They go up and down fine. It's just that they shouldn't pop up with only the parking lights on and the grinding sound when they go down.

Anyone else experience this?
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The grinding is a headlight gear. My lights went up with only the parking lights on also when my gear went bad.
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Old Jun 14, 2006 | 09:04 AM
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The grinding is a headlight gear. My lights went up with only the parking lights on also when my gear went bad.
Crap! That's what I thought. Thanks for the reply!
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Old Jun 24, 2006 | 11:51 PM
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Yup, grinding is most definately a stripped gear. My '97 had 5-6 teeth sheared off the gear when I pulled it to replace it with a bronze gear.
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