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2813, Flip up troubles Posted by Mr Pink, Dec-08-04 04:11 PM
This is long for those with small attention spans.
Story goes as follows: Bought the car(90 tsi awd) with the flip ups up, no big deal to me at the time. Today I think.. wow that really looks gay with the lights up but no lights on. So I take the switch out and swap it with the one in my 91 parts car hoping that will work, nothing. While I was at it.. took the spring out of the fog lamp switch so those actually stay on now.
Then I get the brillant idea of switching the motors. Get the motor out and go to put it in. Surprise.. the 90's have a different plug. I knew 90's have specific parts for the year, but that was kinda ridiculous.
So I am asking for some suggestions on what to do.
Here's some cliff notes and other facts: Replaced the switch with a known working switch, replaced the fuse/relay thing out of a known working fuse box, tried to switch motors and 90's have a different plug than the 91, flip ups do go up, but not down. I manually cranked them down today for the 'lazy eye' effect, but when I hit the switch tp turn the lights on, they went up.
It's probably something electrical between the switch and the motor. I don't want to waste my time splicing the plugs only to have it still not work.
I saw on the web somewhere when I was searching a guy took out the motors and lamps and put in HID's into the lower lense thing.. I liked that, but an expensive alternative to something that seems like it would be fairly simple.
Anyways, if you have any suggestions, send them to me on AIM: Village Torcher or reply on here or just email me. Whatever works. Thanks for reading.
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2814, RE: Flip up troubles Posted by HybriDSM, Dec-08-04 04:21 PM
Edit: Nevermind, I suggested something that you covered.
Go to a auto recylcer and get 90 HL's and try a swap of the electronics etc. Sounds mostly like an age issue.
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2815, RE: Flip up troubles Posted by Mr Pink, Dec-08-04 04:40 PM
As big of a pain in the ass as it is to take those out, I hope it's something that simple.
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