Noisy Mazda 6 headlight

Lemo

I have an 04 Mazda 6. With the engine off and the headlights on, I can hear a clattering noise like a broken fan. Lifting the bonnet, I can tell that it's coming from a square black box attached to the driver's side headlight cluster. I can silence the noise temporarily by pressing on the back of this plastic box.

Do modern headlights have a cooling fan? Or is it something else?

Thanks

tossy

Lemo wrote: »

I have an 04 Mazda 6. With the engine off and the headlights on, I can hear a clattering noise like a broken fan. Lifting the bonnet, I can tell that it's coming from a square black box attached to the driver's side headlight cluster. I can silence the noise temporarily by pressing on the back of this plastic box.

Do modern headlights have a cooling fan? Or is it something else?

Thanks

Leveling motor gone haywire?

Lemo

Bingo! That makes sense. Presumably, that means replacing the entire light cluster... lovely!

:-)

red bull

mine did that for a few months then stopped and works perfectly

Lemo

red bull wrote: »

mine did that for a few months then stopped and works perfectly

Hope springs eternal! Might try a few gentle taps with a hammer :-)

tossy

Dont know about Mazdas but on VAG cars you can buy the leveling motor separate,take the cover off the rear and plug the motor out and see if the noise stops.

Esel

Possible that the motor is a VW part too?

tossy

esel wrote: »

Possible that the motor is a VW part too?

If its broken then yes most likely

wingnut

My Mondeo, same underpinnings does the same. I just ingore it, the test is two years away.

jja4

this is a know problem with the 6 new headlight required around 200 euro bumper off job,what i do is just before the nct i get the level of the lights checked went through 2 nct's like this no problems,dealer told me the motor will eventually burn out