RA65 headlights stuck up

**coey** · 09-02-2006, 06:31 AM

one day i turned my headlights on they went up and that is where they stayed i have checked all the fuses, does anyone know the location of the relays and fuse or curcuit breaker for the pop up headlights on a RA65 ?

**Ashe** · 09-02-2006, 09:38 AM

According to my Haynes manual its in the fusebox in the engine compartment.

**coey** · 09-02-2006, 09:58 AM

thanks but i looked there first to no avail

ed · 09-02-2006, 10:14 AM

i also found the radio/acc's fuse in the drivers footwell fucked up my lights in the ma61...

one other thing that did work for me though:

turn lights on, leave on for a sec, then turn off (as in to retract the lights) then jump out of the car and run to the front, give each headlight a solid closed fist thump on the top...

**wilbo666** · 09-02-2006, 10:17 AM

Check the 3 pin plug, and also the fuseable links near the battery.

Cheers
Wilbo

**coey** · 09-02-2006, 11:09 AM

thanks i pulled every fuse out and checked them all in the engine bay and the drivers foot well and also checked the fuseable links, you can wind them manually down but then they will not come back up so i have left them wound up.

**o_man_ra23** · 09-02-2006, 02:35 PM

get a multimeter set on volts, a freind, and a haynes manual, and start probing around to find which wire isnt going high when it should. Once you have found the faulty wire (start at the light motor and work your way back) then you need to find out why it is faulty

It could well be an internally broken wire, so trace back the wire, and check the voltage at every terminal. Once you find the wire to be live, then your problem item is the item between your good reading and your last bad reading. could be a relay, fuse, circuit breaker, fusible link, wire, connection (dont discount the rotting connections that you probably have) If that all sounds too much and you dont think you can wander round your wiring system so easily (i guess its easy for an electrical engineer to do these things) then pay an auto sparky and get it fixed, probably is something simple and wont cost as much as you think to get it fixed.

Cheers, Owen

**o_man_ra23** · 09-02-2006, 02:37 PM

oh and if you have power going to the motor and it doesnt work, its the motor. Check out RA60 motors, as they may well be the same, or near enough to, and would be a suitable replacement and cheap.

Cheers, Owen

**coey** · 09-02-2006, 02:42 PM

thanks owen i cannot find the location of the fuse or the timer relay when they where working you could hear the relay activate after a couple of seconds when you turned them off i suspect it is a fuse or a relay as you can not hear anything working

**1983supra** · 09-02-2006, 02:49 PM

The retractor relay for the headlights should be mounted under the bonnet in front of the drivers side suspension turret, may need a thump as well.

**coey** · 09-02-2006, 02:58 PM

thanks the only relay i can see on the drivers side is on the inside of the suspension turret and it has heatsink fins on it and the wires from it run in to the engine wiring harness

**andyroo** · 10-02-2006, 12:33 AM

Take the fuse box apart and have a look, you may have a fired connection, happened to me once on ol RA60, my friend hooked up leads wrong way to my car for a jumpstart....thank goodenss for fusable links!!! They did there job, but not before frying relay connection. It made them act all stupid, like, would turn light on, even when lights were in down position, and other such nonsese.

**ViPeR_NiPPleX** · 10-02-2006, 12:42 AM

as andy said, check your fuseable links

even straight off the positive battery terminal

**o_man_ra23** · 10-02-2006, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by coey

thanks the only relay i can see on the drivers side is on the inside of the suspension turret and it has heatsink fins on it and the wires from it run in to the engine wiring harness

Thats ya injector resistor bank. The relay i believe is just behind either the right (in RA60 it is) headlight, or maybe your left(as the fuse box is arse about on the RA65's compared to RA60)... should be samwiched between the battery and the headlight, or between the airbox and headlight.

If im correct, these relays are the old metal boxed style, which can be pulled apart and possibly repaired. I know i pulled apart a KE30 indicator flasher unit and repaired it cause i didnt wanna fork out for a new one, and it still works perfectly 3 years down the track.

Cheers, Owen