just happened last night, when i shut off the lights and the headlight assembly closed, i heard a loud buzzing sound for a few seconds??????? turn on the lights it goes away...shut them and i get the buzz again for about 5 seconds then it stops.....wtf ???????


anyone ever have this happen to them? is the motor going or ?????

thanks
Jack

 

The gears are stripped in your headlight motor. It will only get worse. Replace the gears or the motor soon... You may get a situation where it does not stop and will run until the battery is dead.
Shirl
SDRE

 

There is a guy on ebay that sells a rebuild kit. This is a common issue.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

 

the rebuild kit utilizes metal gears. a pretty easy rebuild with proper instructions.

 

just ordered them from him...thanks

 

when i was looking up wipermotor gears i came upon a thread in this forum and basicly it put you to a firebird or another gm site and showed how to rotate the shaft of the motor and use the other half of the nylon gear (since its only a half turn) i did that and now no more noise...

i already ordered the metal gear so if it goes again ill just replace it..pretty easy fix really...except when i had one headlight opening and the other one closing (put the arm on facing the wrong way, no harm no foul :o )

heres a quick how to since i cant find the darn thread again......

1. with headlights closed remove the rubber cap off the motor and manually open the bad headlight

2.remove the 3 screws that hold the plastic side cover on..

3. remove the 4 torx bolts holing the headlight body piece on (not sure if this has to be removed but it did help to see whats going on in there)

4. remove the 10mm nut holding the arm onto the motor shaft..

the motor shaft is like a windshield wiper motor shaft that has 2 flat sides on it so it can go on one way or 180 degrees the other way (hope that makes sense)

5. carefully pull the arm off the shaft and rotate the motor shaft with the manual open/close **** exactly 180 degrees from where it is....then reinstall the arm onto the shaft and retighten the nut.....

6 put it all together and it should work, since now its using the good unused side of the gear...if not you havnt lost anything imo.......




Woot...this is my very first HOW TO on this forum or for that fact on any car...(remember im a bike dude) so dont shoot me or come crying if you break something , also if you have very big hands this may not work for you, or will at least be a bigger pain in the butt.....