Pop-up headlights

[firefox1712]

Hi Chaps!

Pop -up headlights - nearside one seems to pop-up and work when it feels like it and then won't pop down!

Any ideas?

cheers
firefox

[pistolar]

knackered

[carl350i]

Agree, either knackered or dodgy earth. My lights were playing up and I found a dodgy earth at the rear left corner (behind the wheel. I rebuilt one of my front lights, just needed a good clean and a bit of re-soldering.

[thegamekeeper]

At this time of year probably a bad earth or water in the diode pack on headlight motor

[sevans]

Yep, my money would be on the switch block/diode pack on the side of the motor. The seal can let water in. Also check the connections to the relay's and clean up the switch contacts.

[B19 JAE]

My nearside lite is a bit dodgy 2 off side is fine n look ded square in position the other is rubbing and looks lik it needs moving over one way is there an easy way to do this? My first wedge new to all this Wedge stuff , love it, but i am gunna have to get use to this tinkering again from what iread so far

[streaky]

B19 JAE said:

My nearside lite is a bit dodgy 2 off side is fine n look ded square in position the other is rubbing and looks lik it needs moving over one way is there an easy way to do this? My first wedge new to all this Wedge stuff , love it, but i am gunna have to get use to this tinkering again from what iread so far

Use fibre/rubber tap washers between the body and the headlamp pod. Remember to wire-lock or thread-lock (or both) the securing bolts when you reassemble - Streaky

[B19 JAE]

Ok will have a go thanks for the advice
Not rite gud at this tekin stuff in bits lark have the manual, lol , is this the only way to do it remove the whole pod and replace the bits n put back? all that removin fuses n stuff a do skare easy you know

[thegamekeeper]

Its 12v not 240 shouldn't kill you

[B19 JAE]

It aint the voltage am worried about its the bank manager for when I mek a rite of the job

[firefox1712]

Thanks chaps -

Useful info. It's gone in to workshop for a few jobs and MOT - I'll tell my engineer.

Welcome to Wedging B19

firefox

[dickymint]

Firefox- If its knackered dont let em charge you £120.00 for a new one! I bought 2 from ebay £30 quid.
Am keeping one so one spare if you need it.

[firefox1712]

Dickymint -

Thanks - may take you up on that. What do I look for if I'm looking for replacements - TR7 bits?

firefox

[dickymint]

As it happens theres a couple on ebay now.
http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&query=tr7+headlight&query2=tr7+headlight&search_option=1&exclude=&category0=&ebaytag1=ebayctry&ebaytag1code=3&ebaycurr=999&minPrice=&maxPrice=&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&st=

[firefox1712]

Well guys -

It seems that the popping up of the lights has now been fixed - but they don't pop up and down in unison. My techie is baffled but is sending the car to a bod who has plenty of TR7 experience and knows about such problems. Diode problem apparently.

If you chaps can help I would be most grateful.

dickymint - may still need your spare unit though techie says he doesn't think it is req at present, but you never know.

chin chin
firefox

[wedg1e]

The motors rarely lift and lower together; this applies to all cars that use those motors. Most problems can be traced to the internal limit switches, harness connecors and bad earths. There are also two diodes in the gearbox; usually it's obvious if one or other goes, nothing that anyone with a soldering iron couldn't fix.

Ian

[adam quantrill]

On the mechanical side it's also worth greasing that
ball joint in the arm between the motor and
the headlight. If one is sticking that will cause that side to be slower.

[danny hoffman]

A TR7 headlight and motor went for just over £5 on ebay today - someone got a bargain

[david.h]

£5.50 actually! I hope it gets to me in one piece! Mine work at the moment, but one day....

[firefox1712]

Well chaps -

It seems much to my regret me and my tech will be parting company over this matter - at his behest not mine. A great shame. I always felt there was much we could do together; albeit allowing for my state of health.

It appears I got the wrong info about the pods not going up and dowm at the same time. As one or two of you have said that doesn't matter. I thought they stayed down or up together! However it seems that as one goes up the other goes down - not satisfactory of course. As I believed one thing and didn't know the other, I got a bit cross when the car was sent to another party who is apparently an expert in these matters - and I didn't think it was necessary.

So if any of you chaps have any ideas as to how to remedy this problem please let me know - I'll look forward to reading yhour posts. I know a lot has been suggested before, but please keep it coming.

If any of you are from the Morth East Essex area please mail me personally.

Thanks.
firefox