Hey guys, I got a problem.

When I washed my car last night, my headlights started goin crazy, they just go up and down even when the car is off. Anyone know where the relay is I cuda tagged with water possibly that wud make them do this?

Anyoneever have this problem? Temporarily I pulled the 30a headlight fuse, but when night time hits, this is not gonna be good, any help on things to look at/for, thanks!

 

factory alarm?

 

It shudnt be...i lock and unlock it and it still does it. Also I'm pretty sure factory alarm was taken out when I upgraded my alarm system

 

could be moisture in the relays, thats happened to be before.

 

Where r the relays at? I don't have my shop manual on hand

 

IIRC, there are limit switches at the ends of travel to tell the relays when to turn off or on. Maybe one of those is wet/shorted, etc.

Dave

 

are you talking about the red *****. what do you mean the limit switches?

 

he's talking internal to the light housing...sounds like a short somewhere. I think I remember a thread about this happening, and the head light relay had water in it or something similar. has your car been soaked lately?

 

If you hit the button to raise them (next to the fuel gauge), will they stay up? If so it'll let you drive the car until it dries out...

 

itll go up for a sec if i turn the headlights to on or hit that button. then about 10 seconds later, itll start goin nuts again. Temporarily i turned the light switches to on, so they are up, then i pulled the fuse for the motors, so now they are stuck up. and i can still use the headlights when i want. But then it looks ghetto during the day =\

Yes the car was soaked recently...where is the relay?

 

headlight relay

retractable relay is in the front relay box.

 

i guess most likely it would be the retractable relay, because the headlights still work fine.


That is one clean *** stock engine bay, im gonna have to save that. Those were the days

 

I'll send you a clean picture then, LOL

that is a Spirit R engine bay...those were the days, eh.

 

can anyone send me a picture of where the relays are? my cars doing the exact same thing after i washed it this morning

 

It's the long thin black box that runs along the top of the radiator or by the hood latch. Lots of times water gets in the box and the relay goes crazy. This happened to me as my box was installed upside down allowing it to retain water. Flipped the box around and dried everything out and problem fixed.

 

ill go ahead and try that this afternoon

 

ok so i just went and check it out everything is dry its been almost a full day. and my headlights are still going nuts. the long thin box isnt that the fuse? not the relay? maybe im wrong not sure. but i did pull the fuse for the retractors

 

in the front relay box the very front on in the front of the car , there are 2 blue relays , one is the lights , one is the headlights auto up and down . check them

 

thank you very much this whole time iv been looking for a single green one? no idea where i read it from but i pulled both blue ones the tns and the relay one both of them were corroded so i took a zip tie and scrapped most of it off and everything is good to go =] thanks again

 

Same thing happen to me, they were corroded had to buy new one, only 19.00 from Mazda.

 

Yea dude.. That is a relay problem. (wet or corrotion)

 

They are $28 dollars at the mazda dealer

 

 

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