alright.. well my mom pulls in after work and comes to tell me that her headlights dont turn off. i thought she was just gettin oldbut when i went and looked they were on and wouldnt turn off when i flipped the switched or turned the car on or off. She has a 1996 Ford Explorer XLT. help? lol

 

if they wont go off then try pulling the fuse.
replace the fuse then see what happens.

thats what i would try first

 

does it have the autolamps?

 

^ id guess that theyd know by now


the switch may have gotten stuck on the dial, it would require you to take the dash apart but if it got jammed it might have stayed in the headlight spot...

 

uhh the reason I asked that is because one of the relays couldve gotten messed up.

 

ok well this is weird.. i walked outside a few mins ago and saw that they turned off.. mayb after 6 years of having this car the auto shut off lights started workin? lol i didnt go out and try to start it and see if it was just the battery dying cause its to dark. ill check tomoro

 

what position is the autolamp slider in? I have to keep mine next to 'off' because the lights will stay on forever it seems.

 

if it has the auto-dimming mirror then check out where the bar on it is positioned. if it is all the way to the left then the auto-lights won't work, the further the the right you go then the longer the lights will stay on once the car is turned off.

 

lol jacob your the man. it does have the auto dim.. we just never used it.. ever.. lol someone hit it on or something haha thanks for the quick help guys.

 

glad it worked. when i first wired mine in my truck i thought that i did something wrong because the lights wouldn't turn off(i didn't know that they would, but it would take a long time because the bar was all the way to the right). i switched the wiring and got them to turn of right away, but then figured out what the bar was for and that was my problem. i put the wires back the way they where supposed to be and all has been well since. i normally just leave the bar as far left as possible, right before off, this way they turn off about 1/2 a second after i turn my truck off

 

ahh I figured that was the problem, glad you got it fixed!

 

have you had the truck since new? that would be funny if you had the truck for 10 years and never knew it had that feature!!! lol

 

haha no we bought it used in 98.. so it was 2 years old already, but my mom just wanted an suv that ran from point a to b and had a little kick. so she didnt fiddle around with any of the extra features. o and come to find out.. that "lil kick" she wanted was a 302 V8 under the hood. hmm.. that i didnt kno lol