Lights

[Dave]

Bought a set of blue tint lights there from one of the online there about two months ago. needed a small bit of fitting to get them in, but since then the lights have only being working intermitantly, most times i'd have to pop the bonnet and take the unit out and fiddle around with it until it worked. one has since blown!

any ideas??


oh, i had to take a small what piece of plastic out of the light fitting itself on the car for the new lights to fit!
was this the same for anyone else fitting the bluevision?

[Mustang]

Dave wrote

but since then the lights have only being working intermitantly, most times i'd have to pop the bonnet and take the unit out and fiddle around with it until it worked. one has since blown!

Sounds like a loose connection. Either you've loosened one of the wires to the light socket, or the bulb is not sitting right, and you're loosing the connection.

oh, i had to take a small what piece of plastic out of the light fitting itself on the car for the new lights to fit!
was this the same for anyone else fitting the bluevision?

NO! You bought the high beam bulbs and fitted then in the dipped beam sockets correct? If so you should have modified the connection on the bulb itself only! If you've modified the actual light housing on the car itself, I'd say thats where the problem lies.
With an intermittant connection it's quite possible that the bulb could blow.

[Myfeckin FTO]

oh, i had to take a small what piece of plastic out of the light fitting itself on the car for the new lights to fit!
was this the same for anyone else fitting the bluevision?

Can't really help with regard to the blown bulbs - but when I fitted the bluevision headlights to the FTO dims I had to cut off the plastic tab that runs along the top of the bulb unit to fit the light unit.

Sounds like you've fitted a different model of bulbs rather than the HB3 / HB4 combination on the FTO. Could this be a reason for your blown bulbs?

[Dave]

http://www.autobulbsdirect.co.uk/hb3-4_bulbs.htm#ib

these are the ones i bought. the connection shouldn't be loose really cos it's the bulb itself that i've to fiddle with, not the wires or anything like that.

i might just fork out for the phillips and get it over and done with!

[Dave]

bit the bullet and just got a new set of phillips. side lights thrown in, so it's not all bad.
i needed one anyways seeing that one was gone! looked a bit mank with one blue and one yellow light!!

[CJ]

http://www.autobulbsdirect.co.uk/hb3-4_bulbs.htm#ib

these are the ones i bought.

You didn't buy the Osram HB3a's by any chance did you?

CJ

[Dave]

no, the link might be wrong, but it's the ones above it!

[CJ]

You don't mention if its HB3's or HB4's you have Dave...

CJ

[Dave]

can't honestly remember, i still have the packaging at home, they were probably the low beam ones, HB4's i reckon! i put one old light back in as a means to an end and it works fine which rules out the loose connection theory!