01 Trans-Am WS6

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Well this just started happening maybe 2 weeks ago to my 01 T/A WS6. Normally since I have keyless entry I can just hit the lock or unlock button and the car responded to that, when I hit lock the foglights and marker lights flashed and the car beeped, when I hit unlock the car simply unlocked. When I had the headlights on and turned them off, they simply went down.

Well now however something happened and I cannot seem to even think what it is or what is causing it. When I hit the lock or unlock button, now instead of the fog and marker lights flashing and the car beeping, the headlights flip up then right back down and makes a horrible grinding noise, like the headlight motor is still turning although the lights are down. It also does the same thing when I turn the headlights off, they go down and make a bad grinding noise, it seems to be comming from the drivers side headlight, but im not 100% on that. I cannot figure out what it is, and I do not want to damage the headlight motor or anything else, plus I would really like for my keyless to go back to normal. Does anyone have any idea what it could be and how to stop it?

95GreenZ28

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See which side it is coming from and replace the motor or the gear either one. Lots of people just get a brass gear to replace the stock plastic one

bottlefed98

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only half of the gear is being used, I flipped my stock gear around and now its like new.. there is a post on here somewhere that shows how to do it.
sounds to me thats your problem

95N20FORMULA

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mine does the same thing but for only like 4-5 seconds then stops?

98LS1Formula

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This is what needs to be done-

http://www.bfranker.badz28.com/headl....htm#FreeGuide

CoastieWS6

iTrader: (1)

Go to the Firebird section and there is a sticky thread about how to fix the head light. I did it and worked great!

redls1bird

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Be carefull about flipping the gear over. On mine, the housing had loosened up, allowing the worm gear to pull away from the round gear. Flipped over, or replaced with a brass gear, it didnt matter, it was skipping either way. I had to replace the motor.

01 Trans-Am WS6

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Thanks for the help guys, im a bit relieved to find its a common problem so I didn't have to go around to shops to find whats wrong. Im gonna try and fix it soon, thanks for the link aswell!