Rewired my 986 headlight just to find the problem is the headlight socket.

[amordesoul]

My low beams on left and right side went out on my '03 Boxster S

The wiring harness inside my headlights were cracked/brittle and exposing the copper. Thinking this was the culprit, I removed the harness from the plastic headlight housing and rewired everything.

I made sure all lights worked before putting the harness back inside the housing.

When it came to the moment of truth, I was right back where I started. High beams, tuns signals, fogs lights, and city lights all work - but, still no low beams.

The only possible explanation is that the headlight pins are not properly inserting into the socket when installing the housing.

So I took the harness back out. I have half a mind to just de-pin the socket for the low beams on the body harness and drill a hole directly into the headlight housing with a ton of extra wire.

Before I go with that hack job nuclear method, I'm checking here for better plans.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

[amordesoul]

I sorted it out by screwing the harness plug back into the plastic housing with one washer on each screw. This allowed contact to be made with the bottom set of pins.

[CarGuyNeil]

Nice fix!

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