ima93chevyguy
Zip-Tie Mechanic
Well yesterday at about 2:00 am when I was leaving my buddy's house my headlight switch decided to fry itself.
My dash lights cut off but I knew my switch was funky sometimes so I tried to fiddle with it and found out very quick that it was stuck on. But i didn't have parking lights unless I put a lot of pressure on it. So long story short I held the switch the 12 miles back to my house and then when I got home I pulled out the switch and D/C the battery just in case.
Checked the switch out and it had melted the plastic around one of the prongs and had pushed some of it out one of the holes. Smelled awful. One of the little contacts on the inside was completely black so it must have done something serious.
Anyway I robbed one out of my uncle's truck to get me going while I figure out what I'm gonna do because when I was holding pressure on it I managed to break all the screw tabs on the backside of the face bezel so now I REALLY need a new face bezel. The switch is just kind of dangling in there right now.
My dash lights cut off but I knew my switch was funky sometimes so I tried to fiddle with it and found out very quick that it was stuck on. But i didn't have parking lights unless I put a lot of pressure on it. So long story short I held the switch the 12 miles back to my house and then when I got home I pulled out the switch and D/C the battery just in case.
Checked the switch out and it had melted the plastic around one of the prongs and had pushed some of it out one of the holes. Smelled awful. One of the little contacts on the inside was completely black so it must have done something serious.
Anyway I robbed one out of my uncle's truck to get me going while I figure out what I'm gonna do because when I was holding pressure on it I managed to break all the screw tabs on the backside of the face bezel so now I REALLY need a new face bezel. The switch is just kind of dangling in there right now.