Bad headlight switch

Oct 31, 2003 3 Replies

I recently had my headlights stop working and traced it to the switch. I opened up the switch and found that the contacts had heated up enough to melt the plastic around them which then covered up the contacts. I was able to cut away the melted plastic and clean up the switch enough to get it working again. Now this is on a 96 that I have owned for about 3 years. I always drive with my lights on since I commute over two lane country roads. This is about 45 minutes each way. It seems that the switch should not heat up enough to melt the plastic. I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem.



Dave


You have the stock bulbs in the lights???

-- Jim Warman snipped-for-privacy@telusplanet.net

Interesting read...

I had the same problem and I started ntoicing the problem a couple of weeks after replacing the bulbs that were brighter -NOT Stock bulbs

Replaced the switch - dealer did it.

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