S5 Light Riser Problem
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S5 Light Riser Problem
I've got a '91 S5, and a problem. The lights one day just decided to stay up. As I tried to turn the manual **** to turn them down, the motor kicked in and kept them up. The electronic **** on the dash also does nothing.
I checked all of the fuses, all good. My solution was to remove the big riser fuse in the engine bay, manually turn them down. When night comes, pop it back in, and they automatically rise up.
I've been around NB Miatas for awhile now, and just switched to the fc...so I'm not exactly one with it yet. Just looking for some suggestions and tips.
-JB
I checked all of the fuses, all good. My solution was to remove the big riser fuse in the engine bay, manually turn them down. When night comes, pop it back in, and they automatically rise up.
I've been around NB Miatas for awhile now, and just switched to the fc...so I'm not exactly one with it yet. Just looking for some suggestions and tips.
-JB
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The **** that these guys are referring to is the Light Cleaner ****.It lets you Pop your Headlights up without having the Power go to the headlights(they won't Illuminate).The Thing about this ****(located right ABOVE THE HEADLIGHT SWITCH) is that it gets Hit By Mistake sometimes,and it's the last thing you think of!...you then Think your headlight Retractor Motors are "on the fritz",because they won't go down..It cancels out the Switch on the Headlight Switch to put the Lights Into the Down position...Until you hit that switch.Then everything is 'Miraculously OK" again!..
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i seem to be having a very similar problem, only mine happened right when I hooked my battery up backwards (I'm a ********, i know). Anyhoo, if you get this figured out, let me know what fixes it for you.
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Thread Update:
Sorry to bump an old thread, but I just wanted to give a shout out to this info... Even though I did not use it... After all my trouble, I finally find THIS thread AFTER I fix the issue.
But hey, I might have a new piece of info to this help... (Just wish I had pics to further help, sorry.)
Had the same problem, Previous owner hooked up battery backwards was all I knew about...
Well after reviewing the factory service manual, I decided to take the CPU out completely, headlights worked fine, just no horn, signals, etc and such.
I reinstalled it, one wire at a time. and found the culprit to the issue.
The LONG main plug on the FC01, it controls:
seatbelt buzzer, seatbelt buzzer timer, keyhole ignition light, and door keyhole lights.
I assume this is the case every time for this issue. if you dont mind giving up a buzz or light or two, you can reuse your existing FC01.
I dont know if this info is in another thread somewhere, but I feel like I spent *forever* trying any known search to "backwards battery, headlights wont go down / turn off"
So here is some keywords for this thread.
Sorry to bump an old thread, but I just wanted to give a shout out to this info... Even though I did not use it... After all my trouble, I finally find THIS thread AFTER I fix the issue.
But hey, I might have a new piece of info to this help... (Just wish I had pics to further help, sorry.)
Had the same problem, Previous owner hooked up battery backwards was all I knew about...
Well after reviewing the factory service manual, I decided to take the CPU out completely, headlights worked fine, just no horn, signals, etc and such.
I reinstalled it, one wire at a time. and found the culprit to the issue.
The LONG main plug on the FC01, it controls:
seatbelt buzzer, seatbelt buzzer timer, keyhole ignition light, and door keyhole lights.
I assume this is the case every time for this issue. if you dont mind giving up a buzz or light or two, you can reuse your existing FC01.
I dont know if this info is in another thread somewhere, but I feel like I spent *forever* trying any known search to "backwards battery, headlights wont go down / turn off"
So here is some keywords for this thread.
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I had the same problem when I bought the car. The connections at the retractor fuse where corroded to ****, and fixing that solved the issue.
I had the same problem when I bought the car. The connections at the retractor fuse where corroded to ****, and fixing that solved the issue.
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