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Gremlins?
Gremlins?
I've mentioned before that the headlights on my '92 don't always go up
when I turn the lights on. It's VERY rare, maybe once a month or less
and I can raise them by using the button on the dashboard so I haven't
worried about it too much until.....
Last night, I drove the car, it's been sitting because of the torn out
rear window coupled with the weather reports showing rain for the last
week (no rain, but they kept saying it would!)...
When I started out, I turned on the lights but they wouldn't pop up so
I used the button and they came up. I turned them off, lowered them
and tried the light switch again, no popup so I used the button again
and drove home.
When I got home the lights wouldn't go down. Turning them off didn't
work, using the button didn't work. Several attempts didn't work so I
went to bed.
This AM I looked at the wiring diagram, figured I'd blown a fuse and
went out to check..... the lights were down! I turned them on, they
didn't pop up, turned them off and used the button and they went up and
down as they should. Turned them on and they popped up and went down
as they should and all is normal again.
WTF? I don't know where to start. I'd like to check the headlight
switch and clean contacts but it's way too much work to remove it....
maybe replace the retractor relay but that isn't likely the problem...
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I've mentioned before that the headlights on my '92 don't always go up
when I turn the lights on. It's VERY rare, maybe once a month or less
and I can raise them by using the button on the dashboard so I haven't
worried about it too much until.....
Last night, I drove the car, it's been sitting because of the torn out
rear window coupled with the weather reports showing rain for the last
week (no rain, but they kept saying it would!)...
When I started out, I turned on the lights but they wouldn't pop up so
I used the button and they came up. I turned them off, lowered them
and tried the light switch again, no popup so I used the button again
and drove home.
When I got home the lights wouldn't go down. Turning them off didn't
work, using the button didn't work. Several attempts didn't work so I
went to bed.
This AM I looked at the wiring diagram, figured I'd blown a fuse and
went out to check..... the lights were down! I turned them on, they
didn't pop up, turned them off and used the button and they went up and
down as they should. Turned them on and they popped up and went down
as they should and all is normal again.
WTF? I don't know where to start. I'd like to check the headlight
switch and clean contacts but it's way too much work to remove it....
maybe replace the retractor relay but that isn't likely the problem...
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Re: Gremlins?
Still check the lightswitch behind the steering wheel. We've had many MX-5s
in our club with strange popup behaviour and the culprit was always the
amount of running grease within the lightswitch on the switchplate. Clean
and re-apply a SMALL amount of grease and you're done...
Jeroen Feelders
Technical Commissioner
Mazda MX-5 Club of the Netherlands
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| I've mentioned before that the headlights on my '92 don't always go up
| when I turn the lights on. It's VERY rare, maybe once a month or less
| and I can raise them by using the button on the dashboard so I haven't
| worried about it too much until.....
|
| Last night, I drove the car, it's been sitting because of the torn out
| rear window coupled with the weather reports showing rain for the last
| week (no rain, but they kept saying it would!)...
|
| When I started out, I turned on the lights but they wouldn't pop up so
| I used the button and they came up. I turned them off, lowered them
| and tried the light switch again, no popup so I used the button again
| and drove home.
|
| When I got home the lights wouldn't go down. Turning them off didn't
| work, using the button didn't work. Several attempts didn't work so I
| went to bed.
|
| This AM I looked at the wiring diagram, figured I'd blown a fuse and
| went out to check..... the lights were down! I turned them on, they
| didn't pop up, turned them off and used the button and they went up and
| down as they should. Turned them on and they popped up and went down
| as they should and all is normal again.
|
| WTF? I don't know where to start. I'd like to check the headlight
| switch and clean contacts but it's way too much work to remove it....
| maybe replace the retractor relay but that isn't likely the problem...
|
|
|
|
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Still check the lightswitch behind the steering wheel. We've had many MX-5s
in our club with strange popup behaviour and the culprit was always the
amount of running grease within the lightswitch on the switchplate. Clean
and re-apply a SMALL amount of grease and you're done...
Jeroen Feelders
Technical Commissioner
Mazda MX-5 Club of the Netherlands
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|
| I've mentioned before that the headlights on my '92 don't always go up
| when I turn the lights on. It's VERY rare, maybe once a month or less
| and I can raise them by using the button on the dashboard so I haven't
| worried about it too much until.....
|
| Last night, I drove the car, it's been sitting because of the torn out
| rear window coupled with the weather reports showing rain for the last
| week (no rain, but they kept saying it would!)...
|
| When I started out, I turned on the lights but they wouldn't pop up so
| I used the button and they came up. I turned them off, lowered them
| and tried the light switch again, no popup so I used the button again
| and drove home.
|
| When I got home the lights wouldn't go down. Turning them off didn't
| work, using the button didn't work. Several attempts didn't work so I
| went to bed.
|
| This AM I looked at the wiring diagram, figured I'd blown a fuse and
| went out to check..... the lights were down! I turned them on, they
| didn't pop up, turned them off and used the button and they went up and
| down as they should. Turned them on and they popped up and went down
| as they should and all is normal again.
|
| WTF? I don't know where to start. I'd like to check the headlight
| switch and clean contacts but it's way too much work to remove it....
| maybe replace the retractor relay but that isn't likely the problem...
|
|
|
|
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Re: Gremlins?
"jfeelders" < * mailto.feelders . com > wrote:
> Still check the lightswitch behind the steering wheel. We've had
> many MX-5s in our club with strange popup behaviour and the
> culprit was always the amount of running grease within the
> lightswitch on the switchplate. Clean and re-apply a SMALL amount
> of grease and you're done...
AFAIK there's no easy way to get to it, is there? I don't want to pull
the wheel....
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"jfeelders" < * mailto.feelders . com > wrote:
> Still check the lightswitch behind the steering wheel. We've had
> many MX-5s in our club with strange popup behaviour and the
> culprit was always the amount of running grease within the
> lightswitch on the switchplate. Clean and re-apply a SMALL amount
> of grease and you're done...
AFAIK there's no easy way to get to it, is there? I don't want to pull
the wheel....
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Re: Gremlins?
Nope, there isn't. You really need to pull the wheel, not a difficult job
though...
Jeroen
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| "jfeelders" < * mailto.feelders . com > wrote:
|
| > Still check the lightswitch behind the steering wheel. We've had
| > many MX-5s in our club with strange popup behaviour and the
| > culprit was always the amount of running grease within the
| > lightswitch on the switchplate. Clean and re-apply a SMALL amount
| > of grease and you're done...
|
| AFAIK there's no easy way to get to it, is there? I don't want to pull
| the wheel....
|
|
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Nope, there isn't. You really need to pull the wheel, not a difficult job
though...
Jeroen
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| "jfeelders" < * mailto.feelders . com > wrote:
|
| > Still check the lightswitch behind the steering wheel. We've had
| > many MX-5s in our club with strange popup behaviour and the
| > culprit was always the amount of running grease within the
| > lightswitch on the switchplate. Clean and re-apply a SMALL amount
| > of grease and you're done...
|
| AFAIK there's no easy way to get to it, is there? I don't want to pull
| the wheel....
|
|
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Re: Gremlins?
"jfeelders" < * mailto.feelders . com > wrote:
> Nope, there isn't. You really need to pull the wheel, not a
> difficult job though...
I figured I'd have to but it's not something I can do, now.
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"jfeelders" < * mailto.feelders . com > wrote:
> Nope, there isn't. You really need to pull the wheel, not a
> difficult job though...
I figured I'd have to but it's not something I can do, now.
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