1993 Oldsmobile Headlights

whizkidkyus · Apr 4, 2010

Last night, comming home from a friends house after dark, I met a car on the road and tried to dim my lights ,only to have them go completely out switched back to brite real quick and they came back on . Tried a couple of more times to get them to work but they wouldn't . No warning , no nothing . Any ideas ? What are the chances of both of them blowing at the same time . Loose wire , blown fuse , bad dimmer switch , blown bulbs ( it uses the halogen bulbs , the type that you just plug in instead of changing the whole assembly , four bulbs , two high and two low beams ) ? The car is a 1993 Oldmobile Cutlass Ciera with a 3.3L 3300 V6 , automatic with shifter on the column ,and with tilt, cruise , power steering . Thanks for any and all help.

Thanks,
Whizkid

Anonymous-0 · Apr 4, 2010

When this happened to me it was the dimmer switch you can do a condinuity test to see if one side is B O

Goose · Apr 4, 2010

When I was with Ford, we had a Tempo come in once with no low beams. One of my techs tore his hair out for a couple of hours only to find both low beams burnt out. It can happen, and might be the first thing to check.

Wilson · Apr 4, 2010

why would body odor hurt the dimmer switch??

Wilson · Apr 4, 2010

why would body odor hurt the dimmer switch??

Tom Railsback · Apr 4, 2010

In your case, it might Bill. LOL

Don Hopf · Apr 4, 2010

Check the headlights first. I"ve had one low beam burn out and 24 hours later the other low beam quit.

whizkidkyus · Apr 4, 2010

Thanks guys,

Guess what ? Called my mechanic and he said to try what I had already thought of . To check and see if the bulbs were burnt out . I crawled up under the car and turn the drivers side bulb in it's socket bracket and as soon as I turned it it came on . Went over to the passenger side , turned it and then it came on. Put the pass. side back in and turned them off and let set for a while and turned them on and the drivers side worked , but passenger side didn't so I repeated the process and then it came back on. Spayed them both with electrical contact spray cleaner . Hopefully, now they will work. But what are the chances of that happening again ? How did they both lose contact all at once . If one went out with a bad connection, I can understand . But both at the same time ? It could and did happen , but what were the chances. Looks like then , with that thought in mind ,if one shot then the other one would just quite working , just because the other one shot.

Thank you,
Whizkid

fixerupper · Apr 4, 2010

It's time for new light sockets. When they quit making good contact with the bulb there's usually no good fix to them. Being the tightwad I am I've tried cleaning, bending, twisting, crimping sockets and it only works for a short time. I've even put a little drop of solder on the center contact(s) on hot burning halogens on combines and it only got me by for a short time. Jim

RayP(MI) · Apr 4, 2010

Bought a Ford Bronco II from a friend a few years back. He told of having a headlight burn out one evening, and the other went out the next morning as he was headed to a store on the way to work to get a new one. Darned if the same thing happened to us afew years later. Burned out just a few minutes apart. always wondered if the one burning out directed a higher voltage to the second. Shouldn"t have happened, but it did.

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