Puzzling Problems With Lights

A couple of nights ago my Fiero started making loud
grinding noises from the right front area. Closer
inspection showed that the noise was coming from the knob
on the top of the right actuator (which was, by the way,
spinning around at high speed). The car had been parked
for about 20 minutes, the ignition was off and both head
lights were down and not illuminated.

When I turned the ignition key on and pressed the head
light switch, both lights came up, turned on and the
grinding stopped. Next I turned the switch off and the
right light went down, the grinding started again but the
left light stayed up. After a few minutes of pressing the
switches and getting various combinations of lights
on/off/up/down, the grinding sound going on/off, and that
pesky "dinger" sound playing or not, we finally got both
lights down, no grinding and no "dinging". All was quite
in Sunset Gardens once again (I forgot to mention that is
was well past 1 AM!!)

At this point, all I wanted was to go into the house for
a cool drink but suddenly the grinding and "dinging"
noises started all over again. It was like a ghost was
controlling the head lights!! I'd had enough, so I
disconnected the battery and went to bed.

Today I tried again, but it still does the same things as
it did before.

Any suggestions about how I can fix it or where I can
take it?

Thanks

"Shakey" David Hathaway

Thanks for the info Romeo. I am going to wait to see if
any other messages come in before I decide what to do.
Right now I don't know if the problem is in the motor, the
light switch, the electrics or what!!!

Dave, it's the limit switch (or whatever it's called) inside the headlight motor not being tripped. Gears inside are probably worn out. The single wire connection at each headlight can be disconnected temporarily to stop the continual grinding.

Tons of this type of info at Pennock's.