Does anyone have an idea to why the headlights move up and down when locking and unlocking the door locks? Also drivers side headlight sounds like the motor is still turning when headlight goes down.?

 

I have the same problem but with BOTH headlies for a couple of years now. Good luck with your search why. Mine both also pop up and down when I lock and unlock the car.

 

the headlights will do that when the gear for the headlight motor is stripped. time to upgrade to the brass gears

 

Either sped the money and get the brass gears which I can say you'll only have to do it once, or if your on a budget, for a quick fix you can pull the headlight motor and flip the gear 180 degrees until that side strips.

 

STICKY: https://ls1tech.com/forums/pontiac-f...s-go-here.html

 

Definitely read the sticky. FYI, I've done the free fix and it lasted about 3 years...but was free and took less than 30 min to do both headlights. Just recently I upgraded to the coated aluminum gears. I'd say if you plan on keeping the car, buy the new gears, if not, do the free fix.

 

I appreciate this information, it answered all my questions.

 

That still doesn't answer how come out headlights pop up and down when we turn the alarm off and on.

 

You may also notice that when turn on your parking lights (move light switch to middle position) your headlights will flip up. This happens when the plastic gear is stripped. When you hit your alarm, your parking lights flash...hence your problem of lights flipping up when hitting your alarm. I can't tell you exactly why a stripped gear will cause the headlights to flip up when the parking lights are activated.

I just replaced one of my headlight gears about two days ago with an aluminum gear. I had already done the quick gear turn so that one had to be replaced. It's no big deal replacing the gear and it'll cure your headlight motor problems for the life of the car.

 

my left light did that 2 yrs ago, but I just rotated the gear, and its working like norma again. and now my other light just started doing it so I will fix that one too

 

anyone know where i can buy the passenger side headlight assembly for a 95 firebird? somebody decided to vandalize my car one night and broke all the stuff in the assembly

 

check the classifieds. or ebay

 

Does anyone know why my 1986 Firebird headlamps will not go up automatically when flipping the switch? The lights turn on, but won't flip up. I have to crank them up manually. They will go down automatically when flipping the switch off, so it's not the motor. I'd appreciate any insight as to why this is happening and what I can do to fix the problem. Thank you.

 

I'm gong to lock up this thread. All future discussion on Firebird headlights are best had over in the Firebird forum since they are a model-specific feature and there is already a sticky and lengthy technical discussion about them over there.