Headlight problem

[ka50]

Heh funky stuff... my passenger side headlight is stuck up sometimes. It goes up just fine, but is stuck up and it takes like 15 times opening and closing for it to go down... sometimes it goes down at once...

I assume it's the motor? If so, wouldn't it fail at once? Man.. I hope it's not wireing cuz I'm gonna be pissed...

How much is the new motor?

[black98V6]

sounds like the plastic gear may be worn out, the way the motor is designed it is a worm gear(like a screw) that turns and that moves a plastic gear, well over time that plastic gear wears out. There is a guy that sells a brass CNC machined gear and you can fix your motor with that for about $40 if I remember right, the only problem is that I have done this and the "epoxy" he sends you to put the motor back together with seems to suck because I have used it and the cover for the gear fell back off..

here's the link to see what I'm talking about

http://www.bfranker.badz28.com/headlightfix/

[slow]

if it makes noise, then it is the gear.

if not, it is the motor, (doubtful, as it works sometimes)

or it is the headlight control module (black box, with 2 connectors near fuse panel, 4 and 5 pin connectors.

Ryan

[ka50]

Headlight control module was just recently replaced along with headlight gears. Headlight is stuck open randomly. I assume it's wireing or the motor itself... I expect it to stop operating at all very soon.