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Chevy Cavalier 2000 2.2. The left headlight is still dim. I changed the socet, checked the fuse's pulled the battery cleaned the ground on the battery tray for the harnass and the conection at the fuses to. All the fuses there are good also the fuses under dash are good to. where is the relay for the light's,is it in the switch itself?
Hi I removed the inner wheel shroud and no harnass. Would a day time running relay cause this weird problem. I was thinking about running a direct ground to over ride the problem, but not sure it would not lead to more problems. lol the relay made me think it is the back feed to the system.Hi I removed the inner wheel shroud and no harnass. Would a day time running relay cause this weird problem. I was thinking about running a direct ground to over ride the problem, but not sure it would not lead to more problems. lol the relay made me think it is the back feed to the system.
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It could be a ground problem, or the dimmer switch. I would check for power and ground at the lights with them unplugged and then take a look at the dimmer switch.
You may have a loose or corroded headlight ground to the body, the ground wires are in most GM attached to the body near the headlight under the hood. Check all the grounds you can see on the inside of the fender, tighten and clean the with a wire brush, also check the headlight connector for problems like corrosion or not fully seated to the headlight bulb.
Give this a try------get a piece of wire and strip both ends, the black wire coming out of the plug on the head light, stick one end of the wire in there and the other end to a good ground or the negative battery terminal with the lights on, if the light gets brighter, there is a bad ground to that light. I hope this helps, cause you have just done about everything else.
try checking the ground wire on the frame next to the head light if you have a volt meter measure voltage on the hot side, if there is 12 volts then measure it on the ground side, is it lower than 12 volts? if it is you have bad ground strap follow the wire it will be near the radiator core support and sand it off if that does not help then it's in the light switch.
i think you hit the nail on the head with the ground problem,if you remove the bulb from the head light assembly,wiggle the black wire to see if the bulb gets brighter,if it does remove the bulb and clean and tighten the ground wire end.if it does not get brighter from a wiggle,connect the ground end of a test light to the positive post of the battery and probe the black wire,test light should light,if so replace the light socket.
Likely you have a bad ground at the bulb socket! You can either clean it, add another ground wire, or both! Don't ground a power lead... Identify both running power and hi-beam power before making ground! You can use a test light to do this!
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