Cars with faulty lights

[Cost Captain]

Anyone else love seeing cars with faulty lights? Along the lines of indicator and brake light flashing in/out of phase, or side lights go off when brake light come on?

See this probably twice a day, and I love it!

anyone? or am I really sad?

[Fleckers]

YES

P155ES the hell out of me

get the heap of crap fixed or scraped

[Mroad]

Cost Captain said:

Anyone else love seeing cars with faulty lights? Along the lines of indicator and brake light flashing in/out of phase, or side lights go off when brake light come on?

See this probably twice a day, and I love it!

anyone? or am I really sad?

A colleague at work has a Megane with a dodgy rear loom with weird light actions and popping fuses.
I followed a car the other day, they indicated right and both brake lights flashed in time, braked and both indicators came on. Low and behold it was a Megane. I suspect they have an issue there somewhere

[jimbobsimmonds]

Cost Captain said:

Anyone else love seeing cars with faulty lights? Along the lines of indicator and brake light flashing in/out of phase, or side lights go off when brake light come on?

See this probably twice a day, and I love it!

anyone? or am I really sad?

See the reverse lights coming on under braking on a 59 plate Golf, how can somebody have managed to fiddle and alter the wiring in that short amount of time?

[Cost Captain]

Fleckers said:

YES

P155ES the hell out of me

get the heap of crap fixed or scraped

interestingly, i saw a 2007 ford focus and a 2009 corsa today doing these sorts of things!

[shouldbworking]

Sorry... my focus has a n/s bulb out. The headlight assembly has to come out to change it, and to get that out I have to get behind the wheelarch liner to undo a bolt to release it. All I need is 30 minutes, and a ramp or jack, and some good light, and a ratchet set, and some suitable clothes to get muddy crawling about underneath it and I'll get right on it.

Stupid design

[*Al*]

jimbobsimmonds said:

Cost Captain said:

Anyone else love seeing cars with faulty lights? Along the lines of indicator and brake light flashing in/out of phase, or side lights go off when brake light come on?

See this probably twice a day, and I love it!

anyone? or am I really sad?

See the reverse lights coming on under braking on a 59 plate Golf, how can somebody have managed to fiddle and alter the wiring in that short amount of time?

Can be a poorly fitted bulb causing this.Most other times it is caused by bad earthing.

[Tant]

It's not as bad as the boneheads who put the incorrect wattage bulbs in their lights...like a 21w in a 5w tail light....should be a birching offence in my book.

[jimbobsimmonds]

*Al* said:

jimbobsimmonds said:

Cost Captain said:

Anyone else love seeing cars with faulty lights? Along the lines of indicator and brake light flashing in/out of phase, or side lights go off when brake light come on?

See this probably twice a day, and I love it!

anyone? or am I really sad?

See the reverse lights coming on under braking on a 59 plate Golf, how can somebody have managed to fiddle and alter the wiring in that short amount of time?

Can be a poorly fitted bulb causing this.Most other times it is caused by bad earthing.

I know enough about electrics to get buy but cannot see how bad earthing, or even a bad bulb, could cause a reverse light to come on under braking while the brake light does not... Granted, I know sweet Foxtrot Alpha about the electrical systems on modern VWs...

[Cost Captain]

shouldbworking said:

Sorry... my focus has a n/s bulb out. The headlight assembly has to come out to change it, and to get that out I have to get behind the wheelarch liner to undo a bolt to release it. All I need is 30 minutes, and a ramp or jack, and some good light, and a ratchet set, and some suitable clothes to get muddy crawling about underneath it and I'll get right on it.

Stupid design

mk1 or mk2? never come across needing to take the wheel arch liner off...

[shouldbworking]

Cost Captain said:

shouldbworking said:

Sorry... my focus has a n/s bulb out. The headlight assembly has to come out to change it, and to get that out I have to get behind the wheelarch liner to undo a bolt to release it. All I need is 30 minutes, and a ramp or jack, and some good light, and a ratchet set, and some suitable clothes to get muddy crawling about underneath it and I'll get right on it.

Stupid design

mk1 or mk2? never come across needing to take the wheel arch liner off...

1.5 - the headlight has 2 bolts above securing it and 1 below. The ford service guidelines say : 'dont bother refitting the one below, its a pain in the ass'.

[NiceCupOfTea]

shouldbworking said:

Sorry... my focus has a n/s bulb out. The headlight assembly has to come out to change it, and to get that out I have to get behind the wheelarch liner to undo a bolt to release it. All I need is 30 minutes, and a ramp or jack, and some good light, and a ratchet set, and some suitable clothes to get muddy crawling about underneath it and I'll get right on it.

Stupid design

And this is progress? Changed a headlamp bulb on my '90 Saab 900 in the dark at Fleet services in subzero temperatures last month. Took all of 2 minutes!

[JonnyFive]

NiceCupOfTea said:

shouldbworking said:

Sorry... my focus has a n/s bulb out. The headlight assembly has to come out to change it, and to get that out I have to get behind the wheelarch liner to undo a bolt to release it. All I need is 30 minutes, and a ramp or jack, and some good light, and a ratchet set, and some suitable clothes to get muddy crawling about underneath it and I'll get right on it.

Stupid design

And this is progress? Changed a headlamp bulb on my '90 Saab 900 in the dark at Fleet services in subzero temperatures last month. Took all of 2 minutes!

One of our customers told us his friends Audi had to have the bumper dropped to fit a bulb.

[standfree93]

Following an older Clio the other day for some time, the indicators were opposite, when he went to turn right, left indicator came on, and vice versa!

[twazzock]

standfree93 said:

Following an older Clio the other day for some time, the indicators were opposite, when he went to turn right, left indicator came on, and vice versa!

I saw this on a car today, can't remember what it was but the driver seemed aware of it as they indicated first right (for a couple of flashes), then left (for more flashes), to turn left!

I've also seen reversing lights come on for quite a while on an S-type Jag... on the M4. And my brake lights are sticking on.

[robsco]

I used to curse at people with lights out, until I bought my 147. The NSF headlamp was a constant thorn in my side. I took it to numerous garages, had it repaired 4 or 5 times. A PHer bought it, I had it repaired again and it got all the way home without blowing again! Great, I thought, it's finally sorted. It blew on his way home...