Re: 05 Grand Caravan problem

From: Michael Maskalans (dml@tepidcola.com)
Date: Mon Jul 19 2010 - 18:43:23 EDT


On Jul 14, 2010, at 12:59 AM, Ray Irons wrote:

>
> Hi guys, I need some advice/help. My wife's 05 Grand Caravan had an
> intermittent
> problem that seems to have become a permanent one. A few months ago,
> we were
> coming home from someplace and it got dark. When we turned on the
> headlights, we
> got the park lamps but no headlights. We flashed to high beams and
> the flash to
> pass worked but still no headlights. When flashed back to lo beams,
> we had
> lights. This has happened only once or twice till tonight. Now we
> got no head
> lights unless we hold the dimmer switch in the flash to pass
> position. I suspect
> the problem is in the dimmer switch itself, but I'm not sure. The
> online manual
> I referenced said something about the body control module having
> some affect on
> the headlamps but I don't have the technical knowledge to make a
> definitive
> diagnosis. Anybody have any ideas?

In my case that has always proven to be a bad headlight switch. I
also had a multifunction wiring probelem at one time, but that
restuled in the loss of ONLY high or low beams. I forget which,not
that it matters....

I'm actially waiting on one for my '97 Ram right now.

Mike



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