One of my headlights has blown. The same headlight blew about a year or so ago- does the short time signify there’s something wrong with the headlight wiring?

More likely to fall into the category of “shit happens”.

Unless you are in WookieWorld, then it will be an example of the military-industrial-government overlords screwing you yet again.

Geoff D said:

More likely to fall into the category of “shit happens”.

I can live with that :)

Geoff D said:

Unless you are in WookieWorld, then it will be an example of the military-industrial-government overlords screwing you yet again.

The last time I went to the car shop to get a new headlight, the sales guy was so rude. He looked at my car and told me that daddy should buy me a manual transmission. Clearly planted by the military-industrial-government to mess with my head and probably sold me a dodgy headlight too.

Divine Angel said:

Geoff D said:

Unless you are in WookieWorld, then it will be an example of the military-industrial-government overlords screwing you yet again.

The last time I went to the car shop to get a new headlight, the sales guy was so rude. He looked at my car and told me that daddy should buy me a manual transmission. Clearly planted by the military-industrial-government to mess with my head and probably sold me a dodgy headlight too.

I hope you aren’t going back there!

No way! I rang the manager and lodged a complaint about the guy though.

Good for you. Salespeople like that don’t do a business any good.

I have heard various ( probably spurious) arguments that the left hand side of a car goes over more potholes and drain covers and makes it more likely that stuff on the left will break more often.

Having said that, I bet it was your right hand light?

Nup, the left :)

Divine Angel said:

Nup, the left :)

Conclusively proven:)

Divine Angel said:

The last time I went to the car shop to get a new headlight, the sales guy was so rude. He looked at my car and told me that daddy should buy me a manual transmission.

faaarksake –

what’s with the judgemental shitfest on his behalf?

Left-hand side things tend to fail more often as the potholes in the road are usually on the outside of the road so the LHS of the car gets jiggled more than the RHS.

However, I have a similar problem with one brake light on my WRX; the LH one fails every couple of years whereas the RH one, I think, is still the original from 1998. This also happens nearly without fail on pretty much every model of Commodore – take a look at them driving around and there’s a very good chance that one of the four tail lights is out.

Geoff D said:

Unless you are in WookieWorld, then it will be an example of the military-industrial-government overlords screwing you yet again.

or also known as planned obsolescence

1st time happenchance
2nd time coincidence
3rd time confirmed enemy action

Jesus drove a Honda. He just didn’t like to talk about it…

Proof:

John 12:49 ‘For I did not speak of my own Accord’

Definitely a problem there. The bulb was changed on Thursday and worked fine on Thurs and Fri nights. Last night it was not working. Seems the connecter may be faulty :(

Divine Angel said:

Definitely a problem there. The bulb was changed on Thursday and worked fine on Thurs and Fri nights. Last night it was not working. Seems the connecter may be faulty :(

I’d be looking at the wiring connecting to the back of the headlight. somehow it is losing an earth occasionally. This is usally a frayed wire, loose connector or dodgy solder joint. If the socket is loose, the bulb would often as not fall out..

It apparently wasn’t loose as it took a hard tug to yank it out, but the rubber thingy holding it in place looked a bit melted so it could be a voltage thing too.

>>so it could be a voltage thing too.

Steady lass, steady.

Divine Angel said:

It apparently wasn’t loose as it took a hard tug to yank it out, but the rubber thingy holding it in place looked a bit melted so it could be a voltage thing too.

The regulator my be playing up but then this should show up in the brightness of both lights?

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

It apparently wasn’t loose as it took a hard tug to yank it out, but the rubber thingy holding it in place looked a bit melted so it could be a voltage thing too.

The regulator my be playing up but then this should show up in the brightness of both lights?

shrugs
There was also chat about “relays” and stuff. If it keeps playing up, dad will take a closer look. He suggested getting LEDs because they don’t rely on voltage or summink.

Divine Angel said:

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

It apparently wasn’t loose as it took a hard tug to yank it out, but the rubber thingy holding it in place looked a bit melted so it could be a voltage thing too.

The regulator my be playing up but then this should show up in the brightness of both lights?

shrugs
There was also chat about “relays” and stuff. If it keeps playing up, dad will take a closer look. He suggested getting LEDs because they don’t rely on voltage or summink.

Shame on you. ;) If your dad is looking into it.. trust him.. No need to look elsewhere. ;)

Yeah. It was a good chat between dad and my sister’s bf. Mr Mutant nose nuffink about cars :p

Divine Angel said:

It apparently wasn’t loose as it took a hard tug to yank it out, but the rubber thingy holding it in place looked a bit melted so it could be a voltage thing too.

I read this post directly after your previous post in chat. Firstly I thought that you were oversharing, then I was confused about where the voltage thing was involved.

A quick check of thread titles, and then it made sense. :)

Nothing to see here, carry on…

Hehehehehehehehehehehe

My work here is done ;)

Seems that LEDs are cheap online, not so cheap from a car store…

Divine Angel said:

Seems that LEDs are cheap online, not so cheap from a car store…

I thought you liked the customer service at the last store you went into, maybe that’s why they charge extra.

Divine Angel said:

Seems that LEDs are cheap online, not so cheap from a car store…

As long as you know they fit and work..

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

Seems that LEDs are cheap online, not so cheap from a car store…

As long as you know they fit and work..

That’s the tough part. I’m just a girl.

do you know a panelbeater?

No.

Boris said:

do you know a panelbeater?

I didn’t know you’re a neurosurgeon Boris

i dabble.

Boris said:

i dabble.

sorry, i thought you said you WERE a panelbeater…

(i quite often get panelbeaters and neurosurgeons mixed up, they charge the same rates…)

i live next door to one. he is very good. did his apprenticeship as a coachbuilder.