Need Help with Headlights
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Need Help with Headlights
My drivers goes up fine all of a sudden today when it goes down the headlight motor keeps going for a few seconds then stops. Can someone help. I cant figure it out. :banghead:
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Re: Need Help with Headlights (Paul4137)
My drivers goes up fine all of a sudden today when it goes down the headlight motor keeps going for a few seconds then stops. Can someone help. I cant figure it out. :banghead:
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Re: Need Help with Headlights (Paul4137)
I just fixed this on my vette about 2 months ago. I bought the brass gears from http://www.rodneydickman.com/retail.html. Great service ordered late in the week and had them the following Monday. Took about an hour to pull the headlight, replace the gear, and put it back in. You have to pop a cover off the headlight actuator motor to access the gear. Sounded scary but came off without a hitch. Someone did a great description with lots of pictures. If you are under warranty though, I'd have the dealer do it, and have them give you the old motor. You can then do the fix and have a higher quality replacement ready for when the cheesy plastic gear strips again.
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Re: Need Help with Headlights (Paul4137)
If you're still under GM warranty have a dealer fix it. If not, I would recommend getting the metal gears and doing it yourself. If you want to fix it for FREE you can just rotate the broken gear 180* and use the good half (only half of the gear is used to raise/lower the headlights). Check out this link to see what I mean.
Also FYI, IMHO the gear teeth have a lot higher chance of breaking off if you open the headlights while driving down the road at high speeds. I disabled my twighlight feature to prevent the lights from popping up while I'm going down the interstate at 80MPH, and I NEVER turn them on if I'm above 35.
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Also FYI, IMHO the gear teeth have a lot higher chance of breaking off if you open the headlights while driving down the road at high speeds. I disabled my twighlight feature to prevent the lights from popping up while I'm going down the interstate at 80MPH, and I NEVER turn them on if I'm above 35.
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Re: Need Help with Headlights (JSlyter)
I just fixed this on my vette about 2 months ago. I bought the brass gears from http://www.rodneydickman.com/retail.html. Great service ordered late in the week and had them the following Monday. Took about an hour to pull the headlight, replace the gear, and put it back in. You have to pop a cover off the headlight actuator motor to access the gear. Sounded scary but came off without a hitch. Someone did a great description with lots of pictures. If you are under warranty though, I'd have the dealer do it, and have them give you the old motor. You can then do the fix and have a higher quality replacement ready for when the cheesy plastic gear strips again.
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Re: Need Help with Headlights (markcz)
If you want to fix it for FREE you can just rotate the broken gear 180* and use the good half (only half of the gear is used to raise/lower the headlights). Check out this link to see what I mean.
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