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Pop up lights don't go down. Help diagnose if Passing control relay is bad

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Gigaah

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Aug 7, 2004
Janesville, Wisconsin
Well I got the manual out and it says to check a few things for the symptoms I have. One is the passing control relay. I'm having trouble figuring out the electrical diagram for it and I cannot tell what I need to do to see if the relay is at fault for my lights going up..but not down. Unfortunatly its a solid state relay too so opening it up won't help and it don't click.

I only found out that switching the colum switch on/off caused the 12v to go from pin 3/4 to 4/5 on the connector.

I also found it strange the my pop-up switch connector had no pin in the terminal/wire 1 position. I don't know if the diagram is wrong or what..seems it would be unusual for someone to just remove a terminal from the connector so I suspect something else. Without a terminal 1 you can't really check to see if the switch is working by jumping pins on the connector.

Thanks for any help
 
This may be a stupid question but have you checked to see if you might have accidentally pushed in the dash button which causes the lights to stay in the up position. I seem to remember there was such a button, on the left side of the dash, on the 91 Talon that I previously owned.

Seems to me that the early 1g cars, with pop up headlights, had a button on the left side of the dash that did this. I have a 2g now but I believe that this was the case with the 91 Talon I had previously.
 
Yes there is such a switch. Its the "Popup switch" I mentioned in my post. I've not been able to determine yet if its faulty because of what seems to be a missing pin in the connector.

I guess I'll have to yank the passing control relay out of my talon and test it in my laser. I'd rather not open up the dash on my talon to swap the pop up switch ..but you godda do what you godda do if you can't figure out how to test the existing one.
 
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