If you do the free headlight mod will this stop the lights from coming up with just one turn on the headlight ****? 
Problems with Trans Am headlights.
Problems with Trans Am headlights. Initially, the problem was that the left pop up headlight was getting caught on the hood, so it wasn't opening for me. I arrange the headlight so now it is opening fine. But, now for some odd reason when I go to the foglight mode both head lights come up. This did not happen in the past. Also, the most annoying thing is that my RIGHT pop up light after I turn the lights off they're closing but the right light keeps on trying to close even more. So, I hear a constant bad grinding of the motor cause the light keeps on wanting to go down further. After a few seconds that thing stops.
Any ideas here?
Any ideas here?
Originally Posted by Unlimited
Sounds like a bad wire connection somewhere. Either something wasn't hooked up right, or the previous owner may have done it. IMO
The only thing I can think off is that when I re-arrange the light a little bit I moved some wires around and made some grounding contact with the body of the car. I'll have to double check my wires and see.
the gear is stripped on the right head light motor. when this happened to both of my cars. the headlights would come up when I turned the parking lights/foglights on. also they would go up and down if I locked/unlocked the car with the remote. Dam I hated listen to that like 30secs of grinding. Also they would open close and grind everytime you unhooked or hoked up the battery. In both cases I replaced the headlight motor and it solved the problems
mine just started doing the same thing....except mine does it when i hit "unlock or lock" on my remote....so it looks like i have remote headlights...(which is kinda cool until it grinds like that)!!!
anybody got a link to get those motors for cheap? im flat broke right now...
anybody got a link to get those motors for cheap? im flat broke right now...
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The gear 180 swap will fix it for a while. There are some brass gears available. And yes, most trouble comes from the gears not the motors. Try a search, Its where i found my info.
Originally Posted by lt1formula2000
the gear is stripped on the right head light motor. when this happened to both of my cars. the headlights would come up when I turned the parking lights/foglights on. also they would go up and down if I locked/unlocked the car with the remote. Dam I hated listen to that like 30secs of grinding. Also they would open close and grind everytime you unhooked or hoked up the battery. In both cases I replaced the headlight motor and it solved the problems
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Originally Posted by MEZA TA
Yup Bad headlight motors make the headlights do some funny things
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Originally Posted by rally2247
Is the 3rd gen fix similar to the 4th gen light fix? It seems completely different when I popped open my hood the other day.
Goto the link posted above...scroll all the way to the bottom of the page...that is where the third gen fix is
Originally Posted by SpenceSpeed
Goto the link posted above...scroll all the way to the bottom of the page...that is where the third gen fix is
That's the thing though... I was looking for the 4th gen fix. And, what I thought was the 4th gen fix on that websites didn't seem to be the correct one. My pop up light seemed completely different from the directions provided on the website.
