# Diagnose this: Acura headlamp
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/diagnose-this-acura-headlamp/70675
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [July 17, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/diagnose-this-acura-headlamp/70675 "2009-07-17T12:47:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Janus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Janus)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/diagnose-this-acura-headlamp/70675/1 "2009-07-17T12:47:03Z")
My 2002 CL driverside head lamp has a bad bulb (so I think).
Anyone with Acura expertise help me out…
It began to flicker when initially turned on, and now won’t turn on period. I was under the assumption it was the bulb.
I called an Acura dealer to ask if they could help install the new bulbs i bought (the housing requires a special bit to access that only the dealer has…) and they informed me it may be the inverter/igniter combo…
apparently this is a f\*cking 450 part and the bumper must come off to access it…
does the flickering mean its that special part? in no way can i afford that. its unreal i would have to pay that much, but they have me by the balls… i would be better off buying a new set off ebay.
what does this shit mean
thanks ahead of time
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### Author:  [@Zer0DazE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zer0DazE)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/diagnose-this-acura-headlamp/70675/2 "2009-07-19T05:49:25Z")
It is probably the igniter unit johnson. If your bulb was bad, it would fire up at all.
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### Author:  [@Saxon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Saxon)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2009, 7:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/diagnose-this-acura-headlamp/70675/3 "2009-07-19T07:35:50Z")
ignitors can be found for cgeap on ebay
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### Author:  [@nitroinsane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nitroinsane)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2009, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/diagnose-this-acura-headlamp/70675/4 "2009-07-19T07:55:57Z")
Keep turning it off and on see if that does it. My dads got a shit igniter and it just takes a couple tries.
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### Author:  [@deebo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deebo)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2009, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/diagnose-this-acura-headlamp/70675/5 "2009-07-19T08:16:28Z")
hid’s?
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### Author:  [@Hass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hass)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2009, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/diagnose-this-acura-headlamp/70675/6 "2009-07-19T08:31:50Z")
Do car companies really do that stuff on purpose?
like special tools to do oil changes and stuff?
Just so you have to go to the dealer and they get more money out of you?
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### Author:  [@Saxon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Saxon)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2009, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/diagnose-this-acura-headlamp/70675/7 "2009-07-19T09:01:58Z")
you can buy those specialty tools, its illegal for them to have tools that arent sold, so that way home mechanics and smaller mechanics can still do the jobs