i have an 82 trans am i was resently in a car crash nothing major just a fender bender hit an enbankment. fender was bent in pretty bad everything is working fine except for the front lights i figured its a bad ground but from what i saw everything is where it should be. the battery broke open and acid got on the iso relay for the headlamp motors i am replaacing that the next time i get a chance to get to the store. the wierd part is LH headlight works fine as far as driving lights go RH is very very dim as if i had saytime lights. LH motor did not go up unless i hit the turn signal switch twice as it seemed. RH only worked going down. i turn the switch on for the head lights and the marker lights go on with the headlights. the turnsignals dont work with the headlights on. on the dash when the headlights are on the two turn signal lights come on and stay on and are slightly dim. i took apart the bulkhead there was some gooy crap in there guessing electrical grease its everywhere on the the car where there are two connections. wiring harness seems fine replaced some lights and i didnt want to get to far into the dash and tear everything apart unless i have to if anyone has any sugestions they would be greatly appriciated considering i need turn signals and lights to pass inspection.

 

Check for any pinched wires under the damaged fender. I backed into my brother's stratus last winter in the exact same area and pinched some wires under the front fender. We played hell trying to figure out what was causing all the electrical issues..

 

yeah i know there wasnt any at least not at the fender, i took that off entirely trying to straighten it out a bit so i can get in and out of the car might be under the front bumper ill have to look tomorrow tho thanks

 

Hmmm.. has me stumped. Maybe when the battery exploded it damaged some of the electronics? I'm no expert, just throwing my $0.02 out there.

 

ok well managed to fix the turn signal and dim headlight problem just cant get the head lamps to work now, and the marker lights and headlights are both on when i turn the headlights on ha