pop up headlights

[j23soul]

Hey i jst got my 1990 240sx fastback yesterday and the person sold it to me with the headlights not going down itself. I can put it down manualy by turning the motors but it wont go down itself by turning the switch inside the car. it has a sleepy headlight btw.

[Yorb]

Do they go UP with the headlight switch? The easiest way to make headlights sleepy is to cut a wire behind that switch on your dash, and somebody may have just cut the wrong wire(s). Pull out the switch and see if anything looks amiss in there.

Since neither headlight works, it's probably wiring as opposed to motor problems. I'd put my money on some pinched/cut/frayed wire in the dash by the switches. My '92 headlights won't go up sometimes. Turning them off and on all the way to brights and back off a few times usually convinces them to come up.

[fetherw8]

my car does this too sorry for thread jack. mine doesnt have the sleepy eye issue though. none of the wires are cut. they just dont go down. go up perfectly

[j23soul]

they do go up its jst that they dont go down. well yea its probably jst the wiring. the motor works fine cuz when the flip switch is on and i turn the motors it just closes and opens but wont stay down when i turn it off. when i put it in sleepy i do it manually by jst turning the motors