Re: Anyone else's Gen III Dak blow foglamp bulbs?

From: Chris Dicamillo (chris-dicamillo@home.com)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2001 - 19:53:42 EST


...or too little juice will cause it also.

I had a hot wire to the fog lamps on my Shadow that had a bare spot
grounding out. Kept ruining bulbs and couldn't figure out why till I found
that.

At 07:37 PM 11/25/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Have you ever touched the bulb with your bare skin while putting it in?
>Halogen lamps are very sensitive to this.
>
>May want to hook up a voltmeter to the plug and see if maybe you're
>pushing too much juice to the bulbs.
>
>"John C. Worden" wrote:
>
> > I've had my Dak for just over 4 years now and have put about
> > 7 foglamp bulbs plus tomorrow I need to buy another one. I
> > seem to replace each of them once a year. Anyone else have
> > this problem? Now, my father in law's Ram is a little newer,
> > but has basically the same mileage and he has never replaced
> > one yet. Kind of odd.
> >
> > John
>
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