Help! Headlights!!! But not a motor issue!!!!

[dreamcometrue4me]

I am looking all over this site but not finding an answer. Please help me............. My headlights open fine. I just don't have any light coming out of them. Also do not have turn signals blinking......What I do have???
I have a LH bright light, have flashers, have fog/driving lights, have turning lights.......... I don't get it??? Fuses are fine. Ground by headlights is fine, just cleaned them and tightened back to framerail. I have a 91 coupe L98

 

[air1jpg]

Maybe the headlight switch is bad? :confused

 

[dreamcometrue4me]

u mean the actual switch in the dash?? why does one bright work then? I don't know but just seems weird

 

[gmjunkie]

I am looking all over this site but not finding an answer. Please help me............. My headlights open fine. I just don't have any light coming out of them. Also do not have turn signals blinking......What I do have???
I have a LH bright light, have flashers, have fog/driving lights, have turning lights.......... I don't get it??? Fuses are fine. Ground by headlights is fine, just cleaned them and tightened back to framerail. I have a 91 coupe L98

Sorry,Been busy just got your PM!!!!
Sometimes here at "GMJunkies" Airport Shuttle,Hair Care and Corvette Center it gets purdy busy and I'm here by myself!!
But from your description my guess is you have : Left Headlight Bulb Low beam burnt out,Right Headlight Bulb High and Low beam burnt out and a bad turn signal flasher!!

I don't know but just seems weird

You've not seen weird electrical things happening till you've fixed one of these!!

http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/forums/c4-general-discussion/116719-vette-struck-lightning.html

PS If you check that out and still have problems,my toll free number is on my web site!!
www.gmjunkie.com

 

[1963SS]

Is th LH headlight as bright as normal and do you have a high beam indicator on the dash?

 

[dreamcometrue4me]

yes it is bright as normal and yes i do have the high beem indicator in dash

 

[air1jpg]

This high and low beams in the headlight are two separate filiments. So it is possaible that the high beam will still work while the low beam is inop.

 

[dreamcometrue4me]

This high and low beams in the headlight are two separate filiments. So it is possaible that the high beam will still work while the low beam is inop.

Yes, ok the headlights might be burned out. Just put them in around September but I am replacing them anyway...........so is the turn signal issue somehow a part of that or do you think the 2 issues just happened to be at the same time?

 

[air1jpg]

Yes, ok the headlights might be burned out. Just put them in around September but I am replacing them anyway...........so is the turn signal issue somehow a part of that or do you think the 2 issues just happened to be at the same time?

I think you have two issues going on. When you try to use a turn signal, does the turn signal stay lit solid or do they not come on at all? If it stays on solid, you could have a bad electronic flasher. The flasher is what you hear click when the turn signal is on. If you get nothing, you may have a bad multi-function lever.

 

[dreamcometrue4me]

I think you have two issues going on. When you try to use a turn signal, does the turn signal stay lit solid or do they not come on at all? If it stays on solid, you could have a bad electronic flasher. The flasher is what you hear click when the turn signal is on. If you get nothing, you may have a bad multi-function lever.

I get nothing when turning on turn signal.........What is a multi-function lever? You mean the lever that everything runs on thats on the steering column? So everything works on it but the turn signal part? Wow I never heard of such a thing, then again I never owned a vette before lol.

 

[vetteboy86]

Does the turn signal indicator on the dash light up when you use the turn signal?

 

[air1jpg]

I get nothing when turning on turn signal.........What is a multi-function lever? You mean the lever that everything runs on thats on the steering column? So everything works on it but the turn signal part? Wow I never heard of such a thing, then again I never owned a vette before lol.

yeah, the multi-function lever= the lever with the cruise control buttons, wiper, and turn signal on it.

The up/down switch just inside the steering column the lever connects to may have gone out.

 

[dreamcometrue4me]

Does the turn signal indicator on the dash light up when you use the turn signal?

no it does not light up inside the car either.

 

[dreamcometrue4me]

finally fixed lol

Wow its tough finding time to tear into a vette lol...... Well I finally looked into headlamps and the driver side was not even plugged in any longer and right side was just burned out..... Geez, lol. Thank you everyone for your help

 

[tonybabb]

that's happened to me too

Just read this thread, sorry I didn't see it a month ago. I've had this happen to me, over a period of several nights the low beam went out and then the high beam went out on one side. When I went to remove the bulb I found that the connector on the back of the bulb had fallen off the bulb. Pushed it back on and problem solved.

 

[Schrade]

:confused

6 weeks?

Electricity is just like water. ('til they hit the tongue tho')

No water? Hmm... Hose plugged? Hose cut? Hole in hose? Hose connected? Water on?