A quick warning.

[peterzs]

After a night out, driving back at 1.00 in the morning, noticed a car behind, with the spoiler and tints I can't see much out of the back window at the best of times. Anyway blue lights come on so I pull over and a PC says "do you know you have a rear light out, turn the lights back on, get out and have a look"

I dont know if its just me but all those instructions got me going.

First thing I did was hit the door lock button, or had I already done it? So hit it again and locked the doors, so hit it again to undo it, by then I'm thinking this is looking bad. Next the lights, do I turn the engine on, or will they come on with the engine off.

Get out and look at the lights with the officer, yes its out o/s rear, any spare bulbs noooo, so I popped the boot, hit the rear of the light cluster and on it came.

After name address and age he waved us on our way.

Morale of the story, have a walk round the car and check your lights, I only do it for the MOT, but now will check on a monthly basis. :clap::clap::clap:

[grimmy]

After a night out, driving back at 1.00 in the morning, noticed a car behind, with the spoiler and tints I can't see much out of the back window at the best of times. Anyway blue lights come on so I pull over and a PC says "do you know you have a rear light out, turn the lights back on, get out and have a look"

I dont know if its just me but all those instructions got me going.

First thing I did was hit the door lock button, or had I already done it? So hit it again and locked the doors, so hit it again to undo it, by then I'm thinking this is looking bad. Next the lights, do I turn the engine on, or will they come on with the engine off.

Get out and look at the lights with the officer, yes its out o/s rear, any spare bulbs noooo, so I popped the boot, hit the rear of the light cluster and on it came.

After name address and age he waved us on our way.

Morale of the story, have a walk round the car and check your lights, I only do it for the MOT, but now will check on a monthly basis. :clap::clap::clap:
Happened to me that almost exactly the sods made me do the seven day present stuff.

[Jay-ZS+]

lol funny you should mention it picked the gf up from town the other night and she said one of my headlights were out, checked in the morning and it was mysteriously working again. Although on the way in I must have driven past 5-6 police cars as I thought I hadnt seen so many for ages!

[KevG]

SOunds like a dodgy filament in the bulb, better to replace it.

[peterzs]

SOunds like a dodgy filament in the bulb, better to replace it.

Now replaced, the old one was 5w so replaced it with another 5w, on the back of the bulb holder its saying 10 w??? All the other bulbs marked up as 21w which looks OK.

Had an earth problem after replacing the bulb, when you put the flasher on' all bulbs glimmered and flashed, but a bit of wd40 and pulling on the connector sorted it.

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[Ritchy]

5 watts is fine, most rear sidelights are 5w, 10 watt is like the maximum, just see if the other side is 5 watt or 10 watt, and yes all you other buibs should be 21watts

[peterzs]

5 watts is fine, most rear sidelights are 5w, 10 watt is like the maximum, just see if the other side is 5 watt or 10 watt, and yes all you other buibs should be 21watts


I did check, and both sides seem the same, I changed the brake light bulb as well as it was looking a bit iffy.

MOT on Thursday, so I'll keep my fingers crossed it doesn't go into all bulbs flash mode!!!

:D:D:D:D

[Ritchy]

lol, i just changed all my bulbs in a 1er too, thought if 1's gone not long til the rest go

[will-w]

Still can't get mine to work, both number plate lights are out and a rear light too...

I noticed one of the number plate bulbs was dead, so I decided to replace both... From then neither of them appear to work!!

Driving home from work in the dark now, so is not a great situation to be in :(

[Ritchy]

fuse? dodgy contacts?, wiring had water ingress

[will-w]

Well from what I can tell there's only one fuse for the whole lot, and that's fine...

Have had the bulb holders out, made sure all of the contacts are close and the bulbs are connected, and that's fine...

I've noticed that the cabling is held together using blue insulation tape, I have yet to investigate this any further and cannot find my multimeter to test to see if it's live..

As for the rear light, god knows why that's not working.. I've checked all of the connections on the lighting board but there's nothing I can see wrong...

I can't seem to find the earthing point though, so this could be the issue!

[Paul ZS120]

hit it harder and harder til it decides to work - i fix everything that way. only tool i own is a lump hammer

[will-w]

hit it harder and harder til it decides to work - i fix everything that way. only tool i own is a lump hammer

Have tried that... I nearly put my fist through the light housing though.

It's driving me NUTS! :joker:

[peterzs]

[QUOTE=will-w;

As for the rear light, god knows why that's not working.. I've checked all of the connections on the lighting board but there's nothing I can see wrong...

I can't seem to find the earthing point though, so this could be the issue![/QUOTE]

The earth wire on mine is the second connector (cant remember from which end, doh!!) but if you follow the connectors up into the bulb holder you can see that they are insulated and stop before the metal part that holds the bulb, the second connector just stops at the main metal part of the bulb holder. Thats where my troble was, I cleaned that connector up, bit of wd40, but it stilled needed pulling and pushing on the wires that go into the connector.

Sounds like the blue tape could be hiding a dodgy connector, or join. I suppose you could get some little clips and go from a good earth onto the main part of the holder to see if the earth is the problem.

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