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Melted taillight lenses @ Brake light lamp.....91 240 200

posted by  DET on  Mon Apr 5 05:49 CST 2004
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All,

I am in the process of "making legal" my daughter's Brick.

The car failed inspection, when the brake lights would not light. The inspector noted that the 3rd light burns, but the corners were barely noticeable (if they burned at all). I also had the "bulb out" sensor light burning when the brakes were depressed & perhaps randomly at other times.
So I followed rec's from others here, cleaned the tailight circuit board, sanded the bulb holder plug terminals, and installed 2 new 1157 lamps.
A quick test showed the "bulb out" indicator went away, but the problem is still there.

What I noticed was both lower outside positions of the tailight covers were "melted" directly at the brakelight bulb. I will replace with new covers,
but I am pondering what caused this...wrong lamps possibly? Don't want a repeat with coves at $85 each...

With all cleaned up, and retested, the brakes are still are not noticeable when the headlights are on (i.e. taillights burning)....it sure looks to me that the lamps are both burning all the time...when the head/tail lights are switched off they seem to be correct brightness (1 filament lit).

Has anyone ever seen these lense covers melt? What was the rootcause? I can not get this car inspected to be street legal until I solve this mystery.

Thanks,

DET

SaabMeister + 1 Brick





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