Back at it again with my everlasting headlight problem! After my last fix the headlights they seemed to work okay for ages but the past month or two the same drivers side headlight had stopped popping up. Now all it took was to gently pull the headlight and it'd pop straight up, first thought was maybe it just needed greasing so I sprayed sime wd40 all around the moving parts and it seemed to work again for a day until it rained amd washed it all off, so then i went for some propper grease which again worked for a day or so then when back to not working properly but now with the next MOT coming up next week I thought I'll dig into it a bit more
Two things I noticed when pulling it all apart
1. The angle of the arm attached to the motor was at a different angle to the other one
2. The arm wobbled on the motor like so even with the nut done up fully
This is the spare motor that was in the boot when I bought the car so I assume that this is probably the reason it was taken off in the first place, I'm currently on the hunt for a new one ATM but they seem to be quite scarce so as a quick fix I put two washers here
(forgot to take a picture with the washers actually on) and put a new nut on too as the old one was pretty shagged, all this to take the slack off it and it has stiffened it up and seems to be working pucker again but ill have to give it a few weeks of use to be sure but thought id bring it up in case anyone else has this problem and needs a quick fix!
Altho my other issue I'm finding is one headlight (obvs the problem one) doesn't quite pop up as high as the other one, it seems if I adjust it so it goes to the same position as the other It then sits to high in the closed position and the cover won't go low enough and bottom out on the headlight I tried several positions and moved the arm on the motor about but nothing seems to sort this, don't suppose anyone else has managed to sort this problem?
