[Shotimes] What next?

[Ian Fisher]

My guess is that the temperature was approaching
absolute zero where all molecular activity slows down
and stops. The headlights probably weren't getting any
electrons.

haha

I wonder if it's a bad headlight switch? There was a
TSB/recall for the 93 headlight switches. I know that
mine is partially melted but it still works great. Now
that I have the headlight harness I don't really care
(the switch isn't seeing as much of a load as it did
before).

Ian

--- Bill Murray <fordsho@cloud9grafx.com> wrote:

> I had this happen about 2 years ago.  It was end of
> January probably, I just
> remember is was very cold out, teens to single
> digits at night.  I would
> drive while holding the stalk back for a few minutes
> till the car was warmed
> up, and the lights would eventually work like
> normal.  I thought about the
> MFS, but I had recently replaced it and didn't have
> any other problems.
> Eventually the problem went away and I haven't
> experienced it since.  I'm
> sure it will happen this winter now that you've
> brought it up.
> 
> Bill
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Copeland [mailto:doug.copeland@gmail.com]
> 
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 10:09 PM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Shotimes] What next?
> 
> hi all
> 
> If my recent valve cover seal experience wasn't
> enough fun for this somewhat
> beginner mechanic, my car decided to give me another
> mind teaser. Tonight I
> turned off of the brightly lit street I had been
> driving on to go down a
> side road and I noticed something: it was dark.
> Really dark. So dark that I
> realized I had no headlights. I've had this problem
> a couple of times
> before, and before all I had to do was flash the
> brights and when I would
> let go the low beams would come back on. Not so
> tonight. When I let go of
> the wiper switch, the lights went off again. I tried
> several more times with
> no luck. I tried switching completely to high beams,
> but got no lights. I
> tried turning off the autolamp switch and just using
> the manual one, but got
> no luck there either. The parking lights work, but
> nothing else does. The
> only way I could get the headlights to work was to
> pull the wiper switch
> back and hold it while I drove. First thought is
> that the wiper switch may
> be going bad, but I really have no idea. I'm open to
> suggestions here given
> that I need headlights before someone gets mad at me
> for driving with my
> brights and ends up beating up this crawny little
> guy.
> 
> Doug
> 95 mtx (that is apparently mad at me)
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