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Old 03-12-2009   #1 (permalink)
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Angry Light Switch won't go back on......

Will somebody please help me out with this. I'm not even ashamed to say this but I cannot get my headlight switch back on. I made a mistake and pulled it off one day and it will not go back on. I made sure that it wasn't broken or anything and I lined everything up but it will not go back on. It seems so easy but it's not. Will somebody anybody tell me what to do. I'm tired of using plyers to turn my lights on.
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Erm, are you talking about the knob or the actual switch? It sounds like the knob.

The knob should slip right onto the shaft. Just make sure the triangular opening in the knob lines up with the triangular shaft. I think it kinda clicks into place and then won't back out without getting back into that opening with a screw driver or tweezers or something like that.

How sure are you the knob's not broken? Can you take a pic looking down the opening on it and post it on here?
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I have the same problem, and now when I need to turn my headlights I just push it to the left and at the same time i pulled. When i took my car to an electrician he told me that i need to remove a small clip inside of the knob to make it work with a flat screwdriver, I haven't try that but if you want do it...
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Inside the knob, there should be a triangular hole that the shaft goes into and a thin metal plate with a triangular cutout that it first slides through. That plate is what retains it on the shaft. To remove the knob, you just push the plate so that it is perpendicular to the shaft and the knob slides off.
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