Can anyone offer any advice with a problem with the pop-up headlamps on my father\'s Volvo 480?
Basically, they won\'t popup. We\'ve so far managed to eliminate the fuse, the relay - it works fine in another 480 he owns (don\'t ask), although the relay from the other car doesn\'t cure this one - and, I think, the motors.
If the headlamps are wound up manually even partially then when the headlamps are switched on the motors raise the lamps fully and then immediately drop them back down again. The headlamps themselves work fine whenever switched on.
Is there some kind of non-functioning sensor somewhere that should raise the lamps and then stop the motors when they reach the top of their travel?
The local Volvo franchise doesn\'t very interested in helping (although they were keen to sell us a newer car) so any ideas from anyone here would be most gratefully received.
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There is a micro switch in bonnet latch ,if the bonnet is not closed properly or latch switch /wiring faulty headlights will not rise.
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Forgot to mention in the original post that we checked that (took a while to find it, though) and it appears to be working OK.
Many thanks for the reply.
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Hi
Same problem-any fix discovered?
Al
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Have you tried the Volvo 480 Club forum?
volvo480.dragons.org.uk/forum/index.php
Seems to be fairly active from a quite scan of thread posting dates.
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And from the 480 Club site, a starter for ten of what to look at if anything at all goes wrong with the popup mechanism: www.volvo-480-europe.org/cardata/faq/faq_bm_manual...p
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