Okay, I've posted about this elsewhere but now I'm making this its own thread. This is driving me insane.
Last summer, I installed the Euro projectors in my car, complete with re-pinning the harnesses and running new wires from the fuse box so that the DRLs would dim with the lights. Everything worked flawlessly for a few months. However, starting a couple months ago - I don't remember exactly when, maybe late spring/early summer of this year, the driver's side low beam does not stay on. I can wiggle the wiring harness around and position it in such a way that it will stay lit, but then it will intermittently go back out. I believe this to be a mechanical issue, rather than an issue with the bulb, since it can be temporarily fixed by physically moving the wiring harness around. This has gotten worse as time has gone on - it used to be that it would flicker out every so often and then come back on, now it's usually off until I move it just right, and then it works for a few minutes and goes out again.
1. I have disassembled the plug that goes into the headlight. All wires are properly, securely seated in their pins (the things that look like this). All pins physically look fine and are seated correctly in the plug itself (as far as I can tell, visually).
2. I have swapped the two headlights (plugging the passengers side headlight into the drivers side connector and vice-versa) to make sure that the issue is not with the headlight itself. It is not - whichever light this plug is plugged into has this problem.
3. I have confirmed that the bulb itself is seated and grounded properly. The bulb is brand new, and switching bulbs between headlights does not change anything.
4. I have sprayed the connectors with DeoxIt contact cleaner and applied dilectric grease to rule out a dirty connection. This did not help.
My thoughts at this point are that I've somehow broken the plug in a way that is not immediately obvious upon visual inspection, OR that there is a break in the wire itself somewhere which is also not immediately obvious to the naked eye.
A replacement plug is hard to come by at a junkyard (the two I've managed to find were sun-bleached and brittle) and costs roughly $45 at RockAuto, so I'm hoping it's something simpler and cheaper to fix (ie, snip the broken part of the wire and re-solder it), but I am completely stumped.
Anyone got any ideas?
Last summer, I installed the Euro projectors in my car, complete with re-pinning the harnesses and running new wires from the fuse box so that the DRLs would dim with the lights. Everything worked flawlessly for a few months. However, starting a couple months ago - I don't remember exactly when, maybe late spring/early summer of this year, the driver's side low beam does not stay on. I can wiggle the wiring harness around and position it in such a way that it will stay lit, but then it will intermittently go back out. I believe this to be a mechanical issue, rather than an issue with the bulb, since it can be temporarily fixed by physically moving the wiring harness around. This has gotten worse as time has gone on - it used to be that it would flicker out every so often and then come back on, now it's usually off until I move it just right, and then it works for a few minutes and goes out again.
1. I have disassembled the plug that goes into the headlight. All wires are properly, securely seated in their pins (the things that look like this). All pins physically look fine and are seated correctly in the plug itself (as far as I can tell, visually).
2. I have swapped the two headlights (plugging the passengers side headlight into the drivers side connector and vice-versa) to make sure that the issue is not with the headlight itself. It is not - whichever light this plug is plugged into has this problem.
3. I have confirmed that the bulb itself is seated and grounded properly. The bulb is brand new, and switching bulbs between headlights does not change anything.
4. I have sprayed the connectors with DeoxIt contact cleaner and applied dilectric grease to rule out a dirty connection. This did not help.
My thoughts at this point are that I've somehow broken the plug in a way that is not immediately obvious upon visual inspection, OR that there is a break in the wire itself somewhere which is also not immediately obvious to the naked eye.
A replacement plug is hard to come by at a junkyard (the two I've managed to find were sun-bleached and brittle) and costs roughly $45 at RockAuto, so I'm hoping it's something simpler and cheaper to fix (ie, snip the broken part of the wire and re-solder it), but I am completely stumped.
Anyone got any ideas?
