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Old 08-05-2014, 02:12 PM
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The wires coming from the bulbs and rest of the headlight seem loose or damaged at the connecting end. Dealership says there is not replacement wires and I'd have to buy a whole new headlight for $1300! I've already searched local junk yards with no luck. Suggestions on what I can do to fix it?

If I wiggle the wires coming from the connector just right, I can get both my headlight and blinker to work, but obviously this doesn't stay in place long.

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Oh, and this is the auto-leveling HIDs.
 

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Try the sticky about fixing them
 
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Old 08-05-2014, 03:19 PM
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The only sticky I can find about headlights is to fix the drooping.
 
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have you had the connector apart and checked and cleaned pins ?
 
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