guys I dont mind getting my hands dirty and I like working on my car just as I said when I'm not comfortable doing certain things than I'm not going to push the envelope.

And yep I got in there and Ive unplugged and plugged the drivers side low beam connector (grey one) to no avail. Then it just randomly started working lol thats whats got me stumped.... Ill poke around at it more tomoro. What should I be looking for tho?

 

a working headlight

 

OK I'm done haha

I meant more along the lines of wiring arrangement to the pin/connectors

 

Well, if you've unplugged it and plugged it back in and it still doesn't work... it's plenty fucked. You'll need to escalate to Level 2 Tech Support but they'll just walk you through the same steps before dispatching the fat smelly guy who'll need to take the lights back to the warehouse for replacement.

Might as well just spray both headlights with PlastiDip and call it a day.

 

Use the di-electric plastidip though, otherwise continuity might be compromised.

 

you retards ahah

 

I can take my bumper off.

 

i can too but can't get it back on right. so yes I'm full retard ill admit it

 

I guess I'm going to have to call pay pal

 

My headlights work:

 

Buy my plane ticket. I'll come up and fix it for you

 

that would be cool. maybe some other time jawknee.

You got any insight that you can fire my way though?

 

JawKnee, this is your chance to trade headlight knowledge for "headlight knowledge". Just FYI on the down low. Don't tell Jeff.

 

Sounds like a bad ground issue to me.

Let me review your crappy description and see if I can deduce a solution

 

Wouldn't that be ironic. Another dummy with a lighting issue caused by a simple bad ground.

 

I'm gonna go tear off some of the ground wires in my car so I can be cool too.

 

who else?

 

Some jabroni in 4G TL. His trunk light doesn't work unless he hooks up a continuity probe to the ground side.

 

you know what I'm thinking now that jawknee mentioned it , the problem is on the same side as the intake and thats where the grounds are. Maybe its covered in crud or just not secured as the intake could've rattled it off.. This is where I mean. Either that or something with the D2S connector. I highly doubt ballast, ignitor etc as everything worked great up until the swapping of headlights

 

on another note, I just bought 15/20 mm akata spacers

 

There was a bro that installed an intake and had electrical issues. Turned out he used a grounding point to mount the intake make sure you didn't do that. Take it off, sand/file it down to bare metal and reinstall the ground. After that I would check headlight relays.. It could be a bad bi-xenon solenoid; rare, but definitely not unheard of.

 

Like I said EVERYTHING was working 100% perfect up until the swap of lenses like 2 weeks ago.

ughh

 

Wait wtf are you doing in this video? Low beam engaging high beam or DRL and turning low beam on? you're too close to the wall I can't tell what's going on. Can you elaborate and I'll reply in the morning

 

the first part is just DRLs then I'm engaging the low beams...thats it .

Ive also just noticed that my shifter console doesn't light up

 

:dudewtf:

Sounds like good chance of a ground issue. Or a really big shitstorm about to touch down in your engine bay resulting in extra crispy wiring.

Check fuses to make sure console isn't just coincidental. Maybe unplug headlights to see if console lights come back?

Unplug battery at night to prevent ?

 

I was gonna say that when my car almost burned down, it was due to the drl module...
but then I remembered you're Canada and have oem DRL.

 

so you can remove the bumper ok, but a little while later you cant put it back on....

completely random question/observation, but do you toke a lil Chad in between?

 

"Maaaann, I can take the bumper off just fine, right? But then when I go to put it back on, like, I totally forget where my car is parked and I ended up just sitting in the park asking people if they know me or know where I left my burrito. Dang, you know what would be good right now? Nachos."

 

For some reason when I go to put it back on it sits too tight against the headlights and flex/cracked the paint. so fuck that noise. Im not in the business to be repainting bumpers every time something happens behind it

 

It's because you live up north and probably have surface rust on those long brackets that hold the bumper onto the bottom of the headlight....or the new paint thickness is too much for the bracket...
you can easily either not put that bracket on (have never tested this theory)...or take some light sandpaper to the bracket and or bumper tab that goes in it (if they painted onto it repeatedly making it too tight)...and maybe even lube it up with some silicone spray before pushing it back in.

they don't have magic fingers or skills...they get the bumper on fine!
remove it and have a friend hold the other side so it's not twisting...
if you cracked the paint, they didn't add enough flex additive .

 

gotta take some time to dissect the service manual but those grounds we talked about earlier might be the simplest solution now. Clean them nao! Otherwise, traced up further, the issue might be wiht the headlight relays, or the combination switch.

 

Fun ground story...
adding the CAI to the V you have to use a ground bolt to hold up the heat shield.
2 weeks ago I get in the car and the steering is hard and it says service power steering...
I go on the V forums...direct me toward that bolt...I checked with an extension and sure enough it
needed tightening!

Crazy...grounds can be the source of a lot of headaches!

 

now that I think of it, I nailed a pothole and thats when I started to notice the flickering!!

This was just BEFORE the shop swapped my headlights!

 

You need to lay off the wacky tobaccy, man...it'll help with troubleshooting.

 

 

im detoxing right now actually so bare with me fellaz

 

God damnit Jefford. That would have DEFINITELY helped with troubleshooting

You could have jiggled a relay loose

 

You're asking a lot!
Another picture to help us pass the time? Or naw?

 

My bad man

:sooory:

:soory:

. are the relays accessible from the bay (fusebox) or do I have to remove bumper?

You guys are never going to live down this bumper thing

 

Bumper needs to come off.