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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 05:05 PM
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My Headlights on my 2000 C5 are popping up fine with the twilight sensor on, but once up the lights stay off.
At First they would stay off for a few seconds before coming on, then minutes, now they never come on at all.
I need to use highbeams at night because they work but regular headlights do not.

Any help would be much appreciated!
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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Villain C5
My Headlights on my 2000 C5 are popping up fine with the twilight sensor on, but once up the lights stay off.
At First they would stay off for a few seconds before coming on, then minutes, now they never come on at all.
I need to use highbeams at night because they work but regular headlights do not.

Any help would be much appreciated!
And how do they work with the headlight switch manually?
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Old Sep 16, 2010 | 10:07 AM
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The same thing, either auto or manual, the lights pop up, but they bulbs dont turn on.
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Old Sep 16, 2010 | 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Villain C5
The same thing, either auto or manual, the lights pop up, but they bulbs dont turn on.
Ok. Twilight sentinel will bypass the door operation, but the lights still go through the switch. My guess is, 12 volts is not getting out of pin L of connector C209.

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