day time running lights are spazzing

[owns.a.sunfire]

it's a '96 GT.

when i start the car, the day time running lights indicator on the instrument panel flickers like mad (spastic, really), and i see that the actual daytime running lights are doing the same thing outside, flickering like crazy. after a bit, the instrument panel's flickering slows down to about the speed of the turn signals and the actual running lights just stop doing anything at all. this happens every time i use it during the day. the night time lights work fine. checked the fuses inside, nothing burned out or missing...

what's going on?

[richtazz]

check to see if the automatic headlamp sensor that comes thru the dash is dirty or partially covered (if the car has auto headlights). otherwise I would check the drl module itself

[owns.a.sunfire]

thanks for the help. but i fixed the problem by accident as it turns out:

had no free time to check what you suggested but last weekend while driving back from Chico, i noticed that my front right headlight was totally dead now. so i went and replaced it with the left one and lo and behold, the day time running lights are working again. like they were some early indicator of nearly dead headlights.

thanks anyway tho

[illmac77]

Hi everyone im new on this forum just picked up a 96 pontiac sunfire extreme and it has a few issues i need to fix, hope someone can help, first one is the DRL's aswell, they dont come one at all and the indicator just keeps flashing in side the car, not sure if this has to do with the DRL's but the left headlight is really week and for some reason the horn dosnt work, i do here a clicking noise by the glove box when i push the horn on the steering wheel though. hope someone can help thanks

[owns.a.sunfire]

had the horn problem too, i ended up checking the fuses and finding the one for the cigarette lighter was burned out, replaced that and the horn worked fine.