Headlights problems of the 1998 Ford Windstar

While driving headlights will go out without warning. 10 seconds later they will come back on. Please provide any further information.

Headlight covers turned cloudy. Consumer first noticed this in 2001. Even when headlights are switched to bright they do not illuminate the roadway enough to safely see at night.

I was driving on a two lane curving road with the brights on. Without warning the lights went completly out. I was able to pull the switch back to the regular position and they luckily they came back on. I was unable to get a replacement on Saturday because the dealer was doing inventory. The switch also failed several other times over the weekend with the regular headlights as well. I contacted the dealer for a replacement switch and asked him if they had been replacing many of these and he told me yes. I then proceeded to tell him how it tried to kill me and my family. I have metered the replacement switch and it shows readings all over the place as far as resistance, in excess of 400,000 ohms at times. It never would stay completly open. I just wonder how many accidents that this intermittant problem may be responsible for.

Traveling at night with lights on. Activating right turn signal caused headlights to turn off (parking lights stayed on). Turning light swtich off then back on again did not correct. Had to flash highbeams for headlights to turn back on. Testing right turn signal again shut off healights. Again, only way to get them back on was to flash and release hi-beams.

Headlights over the past year have not been corrected. At night dimmer lights have very poor visibilty. Dealer has been notified. Dealer advised that headlight assembly needed to be replaced.

1998 Windstar headlights are extremely clouded making low beams useless. The headlight are cloudy on the inside and the outside and cannot be polished. The dealer indicated that this was a common problem.

My problem is with NHTSA definition of a problem (daytime running lights too bright in the daytime) and Ford's fix of the problem(disable the lights).