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Old 12-07-2001, 12:58 PM
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Another Headlight Problem

Any suggestions? My right headlight and occasionally my left don't turn on when I twist the lever.. I found a remedy to this, which is opening the hood and playing with the wires for like 5 seconds. The bulbs are new.. Should I just buy new wiring and plastic thingy? (that's a sophisticated engineering term) or should I rip the damn thing out and see if I could rig something up?

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Old 12-07-2001, 01:10 PM
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I had nokya bulbs in there before, when this started happening... Could the connectors have melted?
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Old 12-07-2001, 04:44 PM
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yeah, i'm almost postive that your harness has melted, just to check, open your hood and take out your headlights and check if they melted, if they did, just run to autozone and buy a new 9004 harness (don't ask them where it is cause half of them don't know, so just go in the bulbs section and it should be there)...the harness will cost you like 3 or 4 bucks and then just cut the hold one off and hook up the new one, theres 3 wires you need to connect and then it should work....if you have any questions, just PM me
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just a remider.. this is going to continue happening if your running higher wattage bulbs.. im on about my 5th plug for the drivers side..
 
Old 12-07-2001, 11:26 PM
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yea man,
Those Nokya bulbs were probably higher wattage... all the ones I've seen are all 80W/100W which is too much for stock harness, so you melted it.... get upgraded wire harness from a place like APC or something, it's like 30$, but will save you a lot of $ from buying new wire harness non stop...
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