DO NOT increase bulb/wattage size. Gets to hot for the type of plastic the bases and lenses are made of. Will at minimum soften and distort the base and the lense. May even melt the solder in the lamp base itself and lock the lamp into the base. Then you have lost the light assembly. BTDT. I'm back to running original bulbs again. Poor light and visibility, but not much choice. The one thing you can do, is install halogen bulbs for the backup lights That helps when backing up, obviously. The short duration the halogen light is on, creates no melt hazard, at least it hasn't so far, and it's been a while. John Rodgers 88 GL Driver Fredrich Hesterberg wrote: > To the List, > > I have a not working rear lamp, and would like to make it brighter back > there. > I was looking at the rear of the wagon I have and the one working lamp > is sure dim. > How would I make it to be brighter? > > Good Morning, and thank you > > Fred |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.