Q: My headlights wil not come on

asked by on February 06, 2017

The bulbs were changed and the fuses have been checked and the lights still will not come on. At one point if i jiggled the entry point to where you insert the bulb, the lights would come on, temporarily. Now, they won't come on at all. Sometimes they would just cut off while I im driving. If it helps, I have day time running lights.

My car has 140000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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