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Mazda MX-5 Miata · Electrical

Headlights Stuck Up Wont Retract

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When the pop-up headlights raise fine but refuse to drop, the fault is almost never the motors themselves. It is the retractor control circuit: the headlight/retractor relay, the combination switch, or a hung ground telling the motors to hold "up." The motors are only obeying a stuck command.

Run the lights up, turn everything off, and see whether the buckets sit up with no attempt to retract