Date:         Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:04:45 -0500
Reply-To:     Lee Roesner <paradigm@ALLEGRAPRINTING.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Lee Roesner <paradigm@ALLEGRAPRINTING.COM>
Organization: PARADIGM GRAPHIC DESIGN
Subject:      Re: tail lamp upgrades
Comments: To: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@charter.net>
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John,

Please tell us what bulb upgrades you used...wattage???

Lee
John Rodgers wrote:
>
> DO NOT DO IT. I went this upgrade lights business. The new, brighter TAIL LIGHT
> bulbs melted both the lamp base and the the lense cover on one side, and the lamp
> base on the other. Joel walker was kind enough to help on the worse one. I managed
> to salvage the other. The one lamp base got hot enought the it appeared to have
> melted the solder down under that holds some of the contacts in place.it also
> squeezed the bulb base to the point the only way to remove it was to break the
> bulb and then twist it out with pliers. What a mess.
>
> For TAIL LIGHTS, stick with the original bulbs.
>
> As for the back up and brake lights, I have kept the upgrades for them. Mainly
> because they are of intermittent use only, and consequently they don't ever get
> hot enough, long enough to do the damage the continuously operating tail light
> does.
>
> BDTD..
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
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