My stepson recently purchased a 1995 Pontiac Formula Firebird. When he turns off his headlights, the driver's side headlight motor keeps running for about 5 seconds after the headlight has already returned to the down/closed position. Has anyone else had to deal with this type of problem before? If so, what was the root cause of the problem--and what was the corresponding fix?
A couple of other issues that concern me for him, at least to some degree, is that the oil pressure doesn't seem to be high enough. Maybe the oil pressure guage's sending unit is faulty. I sure hope that's all there is going on there. The oil pressure is only showing about 15-20 p.s.i. when the car is sitting there idling in park. When you rev the engine a bit, it still only jumps up to about 25 p.s.i. max. Anyone know if the oil pressure guage sending units for these vehicles are highly likely to give problems?
Lastly, when he took me for a ride today and got on it a bit, the transmission didn't seem to want to shift into automatic 2nd fast enough. There just seemed to be too long of a shift point between 1st and 2nd. I think he should have his transmission fluid changed as soon as possible. Since he just recently bought the car and doesn't really know if, or when, the previous owner changed the transmission fluid, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to go ahead and change the transmission fluid to see if that has a positive effect on the shifting.
V.H.