Headlights won't go down. Have sleepy eye mod

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sr20deTsomeday118
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today i went to flip up my lights, i flipped my switch for the sleepy eyes, and turned off the headlights like normal. then when i went to go adjust the headlights they didnt move, now they wont move at all, they are stuck up. so i tried winding them down manually to see if they would go up again, they did, but again they wouldn't go back down. now i disconnected and repeated manually lowering them and nothing, they go up and stay up both lights still light up and work but wont go back down once up...

anyone got any ideas????


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my guess is that you broke them

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sr20deTsomeday118 wrote:today i went to flip up my lights, i flipped my switch for the sleepy eyes, and turned off the headlights like normal. then when i went to go adjust the headlights they didnt move, now they wont move at all, they are stuck up. so i tried winding them down manually to see if they would go up again, they did, but again they wouldn't go back down. now i disconnected and repeated manually lowering them and nothing, they go up and stay up both lights still light up and work but wont go back down once up...

anyone got any ideas????
You need more headlight fluid!!!

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sr20deTsomeday118
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treken2t87 wrote:You need more headlight fluid!!!
hahah i actually got that from three of my friends already, i told em i left it at home next to my flux capacitor and elbow grease.

isnt there a retractor relay in the fuse boxes under the hood?
heartofaskyline wrote:my guess is that you broke them
if i broke em they wouldnt move at all, they go up, just not back down

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If u cut the brown wire for the sleepy eyes

Reconnect it...

Flip the lights a couple times... Turn the car over etc etc....

Then disconnect, and it should work fine again

Oh, and make sure u top off the headlight fluid after u reconnect!!!

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thanks!!

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I've also seen where if you cut the brown wire on the switch, the headlamp timer will burn out. Had a coupe recently that had that issue. There was one burnt trace inside the timer that had to be repaired and it ran fine

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sr20deTsomeday118
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where is the headlight timer?

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Behind the driver side kick panel. It should be the white plastic box near the bottom. You can pop the white box cover off of it.


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