OK your description has changed. Let me see if I have the new one, earlier you said that the only lights that worked were the high beams and only when you moved the stalk for the flash to pass. "
So when I pull the knob for my headlights to come on nothing happens. When I push it back in the park lights will go off. When I turn on my brights with the turn signal switch I have to hold them on in order for them to stay on if I let it go they go off."
However now you say the items below, correct me where I'm wrong.
When you pull on the light switch the low beams both work, Correct?
When you pull up on the dimmer the high beams work, Correct?
You cannot select the high beams with the stalk and have them stay on, without holding the stalk, Correct?
If those three are correct then you have a bad dimmer switch. The internals have broken. The switch on those moves a set of contacts inside them and latches them in place either low beam or high beam. In your case you turn on the headlights and just cannot select high beams because the latch broke. As such it is a mechanical failure in the switch. The fuses and relays are all working or the lights wouldn't work at all. The fact that the low beams come on with the switch and not that only the parking lights come on shows that.
So you need to disconnect the negative battery terminal, wait at least 20 minutes then remove the air bag from the steering wheel, then the steering wheel. Then remove the shrouds from the steering column and remove the screws that retain the switch, Disconnect the harness connection and reverse the process with the new switch.
From service info -
First you need the J 44298 Driver Air Bag Removal Tool or go online and see how you can use a couple of flat tools to reach in and disconnect the retainers. Then -
1. Verify that the multifunction turn signal lever is in the center of the OFF position.
2. Disconnect the negative battery cable.
3. Disable the SIR system. (Pull the air bag fuse)
4. Remove the inflatable restraint steering wheel module. Using the tools
5. Remove the steering wheel. For this you remove the air bag, then lock the steering column, make a mark on the steering shaft and one on the wheel so you can line them up later, don't mark the nut as it has to come off. Now use the puller to pop the wheel off the shaft.
6. Remove the steering column trim covers. These are both clipped and screwed in place. Remove the screws and if you have a tilt column put it tilted down just a bit, then pull straight out at the base of the tilt lever and it should pop free. Remove the screws in the bottom cover and drop it off.
7. Remove the steering column wire harness (1) from the steering column wire harness retainer (2).
8. Remove the two wire harness straps from the steering column wire harness (1).
9. Remove the steering column bulkhead connector from the vehicle wire harness.
10. Disconnect the gray and black connectors from the multifunction turn signal lever steering column bulkhead connector.
11. Remove the retaining bolts (1) from the multifunction turn signal lever (2).
12. Remove the multifunction turn signal lever (2) from the staring column.
Reverse the process to install the new switch.
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Friday, January 30th, 2026 AT 7:51 PM