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Old Jul 11, 2007 | 05:54 AM
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Head Lights Not going Down?

Headlights won't go down on my s4, motors seem good, everythings connected.
Took everything off, lol just fooling around trying to get this thing to work!!

any idea's what could be the matter while i have it ripped apart?

ALSO, is there a manual way to put them up or down?
i know they have it on the first gens.
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Old Jul 11, 2007 | 11:47 AM
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theres a fuse in the main fuse box in the engine bay. check that. thats likely the problem if they wont move.

if you peek under the the headlights from the front, on the bottom of the motor is a black rubber cap, remove it and you can twist the white *** to move the headlights. thats how most people accomplish the "sleepy eye" look, by removing the fuse and manually adjusting the height.
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Old Jul 11, 2007 | 12:12 PM
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I recently had a similar problem with my pop up headlights. I originally thought it was the motor like many on the forum but it actually was the headlight motor rod interfering with a lock washer that was within its travel. Not sure what it was for but I would double check that nothing is binding in that rods travel.
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Old Jul 11, 2007 | 01:02 PM
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not accusing you of being dumb or anything but just checking you do know there is a switch on the dash which causes them to permanently stay up whether your lights are on or off???
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Old Jul 11, 2007 | 01:04 PM
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does that switch work when the keys are out of the car though? It might, idk, just something else to consider.
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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 01:15 AM
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does that switch work when the keys are out of the car though? It might, idk, just something else to consider.
When the cars on, when i try to put them down.
I hear this buzzing noise. and its coming from under the headlights.

but i think the buzzing noise is something else.

not accusing you of being dumb or anything but just checking you do know there is a switch on the dash which causes them to permanently stay up whether your lights are on or off???
Where is this switch? I may have overpassed it
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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 08:22 AM
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The switch is above the headlight switch, left side of the gauge cluster.
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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Kinkrider87
I recently had a similar problem with my pop up headlights. I originally thought it was the motor like many on the forum but it actually was the headlight motor rod interfering with a lock washer that was within its travel. Not sure what it was for but I would double check that nothing is binding in that rods travel.
My car has a similar problem. One of the lights will go up then go back down half way and stay that way, so I have to take the bar off the headlight motor to the light to prop it open myself and now another problem has come, the light wont even stay up when I prop it up, it just falls back down .. why i dont know, so I have to get it to stay up by getting it up against soemthing that will hold the light up since it cant hold itself up (my car is ghetto)
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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 09:15 PM
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See Mine are just stuck up so I got it all ripped apart, waiting to figure out WTF to do.
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