Just my luck -- Are internal headlight adjustment mechanisms repairable?
Just my luck -- Are internal headlight adjustment mechanisms repairable?
I was on my way to DC for the Cherry Blossom Festival last week and decided to drive during the night to avoid all the truckers. Ever since last year when I replaced my brakes my diagnostic message has been displaying "BRAKE PADS WORN." I have just never took the time to replace it or put a loop in the wires to trick the sensor. Well I had had enough, I figured after a year I should just get it over with and do it so I could enjoy an error free disply. What better time to do it than at 3 o'clock in the morning. I pull over at a rest area and crawl up under the car and immediately find the connector, throw a loop on it, and tape it up real good with electrical tape. Voila, I start the car and for the first time in a year I see OK on the display. If I had known it would have been that easy I would have done it sooner. It about drove me crazy looking at that almost all the way there, it was all I had to look at with it being dark outside. For any of you that have the same problem, just take a long drive in the dark and after about 4 hours you will find yourself up under the car. Anyway here is the purpose of the post....After my first day in DC I start the car and the damn diagnostic display is telling me I have a headlight burned out. So here I am in DC running around with one headlight and everyone is looking at me and my license plate from Tennessee and putting the two together wondering what the hell I'm doing in in DC and the whole time I'm burning mad that I only got to enjoy one day error free!! There was no way I was going to drive all the way back looking like a one-eyed polcat looking at an error on the display instead of miles driven. On the way back, I pull over at an exit and ask for directions to the nearest WallyWorld. I buy a set of lights and replace both of them so the colors would match and turn the headlights on and they are pointing in all directions. I tried to adjust them but I am only able to vertically adjust and the horizontal adjust will just turn like a stripped bolt and do nothing. Now for the questions guys, can the internal guts controlling the aim adjustment of the headlights be repaired? Has anyone had similar problems and fixed it? Anyhow at least my car tells me everything is OK after I crank her up and I can see the trees real well at night now.