headlight turn signal trouble

I went to change out my gauge cluster to a canadian one and only one headlight comes on now it stays on bright even on the cluster. my turn signals work but when io cut my right one on my left corner blinks too. i even changed the turn signal and headlight switches and put the original cluster back in but no luck.and i have tried the ground coming off of the cluster harness.

did you check fuses?

have you tryed reseting your computer?

have you tryed reseting your computer?

Computer won't have anything to do with his headlights and blinker, so completely ignore that post.

Sounds like a bad ground to me, usually something random and crazy like that, its a ground. Start checking your grounds.

You can also install your other gauge cluster again and see if the problem goes away, then you know its in the cluster. But still sounds like a ground issue to me.

Computer won't have anything to do with his headlights and blinker, so completely ignore that post.

Sounds like a bad ground to me, usually something random and crazy like that, its a ground. Start checking your grounds.

You can also install your other gauge cluster again and see if the problem goes away, then you know its in the cluster. But still sounds like a ground issue to me.so computer dose not tell your lights when to come on and when not to you say? then why dose it have a computer? because computer runs your whole car.so maybe i behind in time.

No, your headlight switch tells the headlights when to come on or off. I don't know about these newer cars what know when its dark outside, or daytime running headlights, but on our cars, its only the switch.

The ECM doesn't control everything our cars do, mostly anything that is related to the engine, everything else doesn't need a computer to tell it what to do. A lot of it is just relays.

Granted, the newer model cars usually have a computer for just about anything and everything, but we are not talking about newer cars.

oh i see on newer cars. i never relized this was that old so i better pay more att on the year.thanks for corecting me..

While there are several newer vehicles which use modules to control most everything, including lights, these days, the average vehicle still uses plain old relays to control lights and other things.

Just for future reference.

yah like my 79 malibu it's still stock 229 i mess with them every once and awhile. i call auto zone say i need dist cap for that year 79 and they don't have in that year so i tell them to try a 1980 because this 79 came out with the chevy moter and they all switched to a 231 buick..but yah tell them to pull one out of stock then you'll the socket there to fit it...

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Does that post make sense to anyone else?... I have no idea what this guy is thinking... but it's completely OT, as far as I can tell... and definitely not understandable...

amen brother

While there are several newer vehicles which use modules to control most everything, including lights, these days, the average vehicle still uses plain old relays to control lights and other things.

Just for future reference.i have no ideal how this got in to this post? sorry about the confusion wont happen again..sorry to all of you.

im curious how u madeout with your problem? Tony had good advice about switching it back to your orginal switch did it work for you? keep in mind if u post a thread it be cool if u cameback to let us know of your progress so we can keep troubleshooting with you:smokin: as for u other douche bags that posted in here with WORTHLESS post..take anything not thread related to the O/T section

hahah... he quoted my post to say sorry... wow.

ok then kiss my lilly white ass. oh you probably kiss ass as far as you got???

Do things like this get you far in life? I wouldn't know.. I don't do it... I do know one place it will get you... ignored, temp ban, then eventually banned permanently.

So, please... In the interest of all of us not really caring what bad choices you make... keep stuff like that up.

i wasnt trying to be a dick..but alot of 1st post dudes may feel discouraged to post again or feel its uh waste of time when they see there thread turned into a chatroom:icon16:

This thread makes me wanna cut myself.

i have changed the cluster 3 times even back to the original, i changed the signal switch, checked fuses, checked relays, checked the ground off of the harness, and im to the point that i might change out the dash so i can change the wiring harness behind the cluster

seems like that might be your problem... you might have pinched a couple wires or something when you pulled your cluster, or went to install the new one... which might have caused circuit shorts... so that when you intend for one thing to happen, the power/ground is transferred through a different circuit by the crossed wires, and causes something completely different to happen... I've seen guys have this happen, and their headlights turn into turn signals... turn the signal on, headlights blink... it was kinda sweet, for a day... but we had to fix it.

Other than that, I'm completely stumped on this... can't think of anything else that would cause it....

Just so you know, the dash is relatively easy to remove... and the wiring is nothing to change.. I've done it a couple times now.

This thread makes me wanna cut myself.

...or cut some breaklines.

whoops, did i type that out loud?

let's hope no more further clean ups are required

Nah I don't need to cut brake lines.. they blow out for me all on their own.

not you silly rabbit.

listen to tony ok what year is it ? and where was the car made ? there is a tag in the front of the car kinda by the radiator support ok if it says japan you need to put a different cluster in it ok and the year does have a lot to do with it like if your is an 88 and your cluster is a 90 or 91 si or dx it could be different ok