Rear brake lights

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 9:02 pm

Drax wrote:
mercutio wrote:the plastic backing bit that holds all the bulbs???? has a little box attached its a bulb fault indicator
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never seen or heard of it lol but ill check it out now - is it part of the plastic unit holding in the bulbs?

yep

Post by **Drax** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:39 pm

well, somehow ALL my brake light bulbs have gone. 2x standard ones and 2x in the upper 3rd brake light, no idea how

but after buying replacement bulbs they now work

oddly they are a duel filament bulb and are also the side lights of course, and that part of both bulbs still worked ok on the old ones

Post by **Vtecmec** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:41 pm

Easy fix.

Post by **Drax** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:31 am

Vtecmec wrote:Easy fix.

this is true! saves a ballache going through wiring but I don't get how it has happened, all lights popped, no fuse blown yet the two main still worked as sidelights

one of life's mysteries

Post by **Vtecmec** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 11:03 pm

Hopefully just a spooky coincidence.

Post by **newkid** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 12:41 am

You find 9 times out of 10 its the brake side on dual filaments that goes, its to do with more heat produced as its brighter than the sidelight side.

Post by **Drax** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:04 am

newkid wrote:You find 9 times out of 10 its the brake side on dual filaments that goes, its to do with more heat produced as its brighter than the sidelight side.

ah ha!

but odd that both duel filament bulbs and my 3rd brake light bulbs all pop at the same time. I can only think I have shorted them somehow