Sorry,

Yes, the passenger side headlamp socket. The bad ground was in the socket itself. It would appear that the socket may have come loose or the actual female part of the plug got stretched somehow, it's kind of hard to tell what caused the failure since the plug was melted. I will say that I had put dielectric grease in that particular socket on 12-15-06 when I replaced the lightbulb with a sylvania cool blue bulb so I don't think corrosion was the problem. Heat also wasn't the problem since just the ground side of the plug was melted.

When I purchased the car I removed all the ground bolts I could find, cleaned the contacts and replaced them after smearing on some dielectric grease. However, all the grounds looked very clean and good then (April '06)

The driver side headlamp socket had been replaced by a previous owner, but he had used a low temp socket and only crimped the wires. I soldered in 2 new headlamp sockets with high temp units I purchased at advance auto parts.

All is working fine now.

Thanks all for your suggestions and help!

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Bob Kopicki
Massillon OH
'97 VW Cabrio (POS)
'93 Miata
'87 300e
'76 GMC C-15
'67 TR-4a