Nissan Repair: Daylight not working properly, nissan sentra, phillips screwdriver

Question
Hello Von,
     I have a Nissan Sentra Clasic 1993, The problem that my car has is: The daylight will work fine for a few minutes when I start the car then the right head lamp light turn off and the left side light become brigther and also tail lights on my Nissan stop working like no light will be on when you step on the brakepedal.

I hope you can helpme on idntifying the problem and letting me know how cna I fix it.

Thanks for your time
Regards
Martin

Answer
Martin,

Replace the headlight switch.  I just did one of these a month ago and that was the problem.  There are contacts that get burnt out in the switch assembly.  It is easy to replace as all you need is a phillips screwdriver to take the plastic cover off the steering columm.  The steering wheel does not have to come off and once the plastic cover is removed all you need to do is remove two screws that hold the switch on and unplug it and replace it with a new one.  Once you have the old one off you will see the defective contacts.  If you have time you can get one off rockauto.com as they are really cheap.  Nissan will charge around $100 for the switch.