probably 3 months ago i guess, my horn stopped working and my turn signals have stopped flashing. the signals both work, they just don't toggle so i have to do it manually. i've replaced the relays/flashers to no avail, which leads me to believe the problems lies in the wiring.

i'm trying to sell it, but if i can't before the inspection runs out in march, how much does rewiring typically cost?

1/29/2007 6:36:27 PM

i could take at look at it for you sometime, horn is probably the contact ring, and the flashers is probably a bad ground

1/29/2007 6:40:24 PM

well i live in greensboro with a pretty busy schedule, so that probably wouldn't work, but i appreciate the offer

1/29/2007 6:43:48 PM

are the lights bright and are all of them working?

1/29/2007 6:48:45 PM

well i think the headlight motor is going bad too, because the right one opens slower than the left and they both make this awful grinding noise when i close them.

but yeah as far as i can tell the lights themselves work

1/29/2007 6:50:09 PM

what kind of flasher, if they don't have enough load on them, they won't flash, the heavy duty ones won't work on your car

1/29/2007 6:51:56 PM

that i don't know, i got it from the dealership.

is there only one thats under the steering wheel?

[Edited on January 29, 2007 at 6:53 PM. Reason : .]

1/29/2007 6:53:24 PM

the headlight motors go bad a lot of firebirds.

1/29/2007 6:56:11 PM

the turn flasher isnt in the fuse block, thats the hazard flasher, it should be to the left of the steering column under the dash by itself

1/29/2007 7:01:29 PM

yeah thats what i meant, i've replaced it with the dealer's flasher

1/29/2007 7:02:48 PM

you can take apart the headlight motor and rotate the plastic driven gear so the drive gear doesn't touch the bad part anymore for a free fix.

[Edited on January 29, 2007 at 7:45 PM. Reason : c]

1/29/2007 7:41:47 PM

^yep, that's what i was going to say that.

beatsbigblueram

[Edited on January 29, 2007 at 7:49 PM. Reason : .]

1/29/2007 7:48:41 PM

ummm, how would i go about doing that.

1/29/2007 7:56:25 PM

FYI you can do that in power tilt motors on Lexus cars too

1/29/2007 9:25:25 PM

how much for the car

1/29/2007 9:38:43 PM

i'm probably gonna ask $3500-4000 and go from there. its got 147K miles, but i'd say at least 70% of those are highway, and there's a scrape on the right fender but its otherwise pretty good cosmetically

1/30/2007 6:46:21 AM

Quote :

"well i think the headlight motor is going bad too, because the right one opens slower than the left and they both make this awful grinding noise when i close them. but yeah as far as i can tell the lights themselves work"

my Formula headlights do the same thing -- that grinding noise after they shut... has been doing it for 1.5 years and still works fine though.

1/30/2007 10:17:09 AM

blue book is $2,700-3,200

1/30/2007 10:40:24 AM

yeah i know, thats why i'm starting higher because i wanna at least get the blue book value and i know people will want to haggle

1/30/2007 6:23:48 PM

good luck with that haha !

1/30/2007 7:04:22 PM

http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=459161

1/31/2007 9:20:13 PM

so how do i go about manually tightening the headlights? once i get them apart that is

1/31/2007 10:27:37 PM

http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=459161

1/31/2007 10:29:09 PM