# Headlights that don't light!

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/headlights-that-dont-light/40232>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** caravan, dodge, headlights\
**Created:** [December 1, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/headlights-that-dont-light/40232 "2009-12-01T19:32:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![buddypoore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@buddypoore](https://community.cartalk.com/u/buddypoore)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/headlights-that-dont-light/40232/1 "2009-12-01T19:32:48Z")

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My car is a 2005 Dodge Caravan SXT. After turning on my headlights, sometimes they go off and then come back on. It happens when moving(driving) or not moving. Suggestions for locating a problem and repairing?

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**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/headlights-that-dont-light/40232/2 "2009-12-01T21:21:30Z")

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The headlight system is protected by a circuit breaker so if it is drawing too much current, it will flip the breaker. Once it cools a little, it will come back on. So either you have a defective breaker, or something is causing too much of a load when the lights are on. Possible culprits would be a bad headlight switch, bad wires, bad connections at the headlights, bad headlight relay, and so on.

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**Author:** ![Cougar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cougar/32/21348_2.png) [@Cougar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cougar)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/headlights-that-dont-light/40232/3 "2009-12-02T17:46:32Z")

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My first suspect would be an intermittent switch.

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**Author:** ![buddypoore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@buddypoore](https://community.cartalk.com/u/buddypoore)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/headlights-that-dont-light/40232/4 "2009-12-02T19:47:14Z")

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When you say intermittent switch, are you referring to the actual on/off switch on the dashboard panel?

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**Author:** ![Cougar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cougar/32/21348_2.png) [@Cougar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cougar)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/headlights-that-dont-light/40232/5 "2009-12-02T22:01:27Z")

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The switch for headlights is what I meant.