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Old Jul 3, 2014 | 06:55 PM
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So it's been a while since I drove my C-5 at night.. Plus I was detailing the car anyway, so I manually turn on the headlights, to clean them and the drivers side comes up fine, the passenger side was lit, but just stuck down. I pulled the cover off the manual open adjuster, and gave it a few turns, tried again and it worked, but now when I shut the lights off the passenger side light makes a noise like a $50.00 Chinese air compressor. It still works but something broke for sure.. It opens and closes just fine now, but makes a noise like gears stripping when I turn the lights off, but something is definitely wrong.

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Thanks in advance!

Russ
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Old Jul 3, 2014 | 08:42 PM
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Russ, do a search in the C5 section for headlight gear replacement. You will find all the answers there. There is also a thread on how to rotate the gear 180 degrees for a quick fix.
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Old Jul 3, 2014 | 09:44 PM
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Rodney Dickman makes an AWESOME kit to replace the plastic gears with brass. It's VERY easy to install. Just google the name
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Old Jul 3, 2014 | 10:26 PM
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I too don't drive at night very much and I try and make it a point to exercise the lights and other things on the vette occasionally, like the horn, passenger side power window, etc. I know it didn't help your problem but just say in the future _ _ _ _ _.
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Old Jul 4, 2014 | 09:02 AM
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Here is one link:

http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/foru...d.php?t=102908
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