93 urS4: seat heater bulb replacement

[Billing, Eric]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--
[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
Greetings,

I swapped the bulbs in my seat heater switches this past weekend. As prepar=
ed as I was, thanks to write-ups on urS4.com, I was not prepared for the fa=
ct that my 93 urS4 used red bulbs vs. the clear that I had purchased. NOTE =
to self: read all of the discussion before you being your project.

Since a return trip to the parts store was not an option, I grabbed a bottl=
e of the wife's finger nail polish. Upon installation, everything looked gr=
eat. A very OEM red look....at least at first. Apparently the bulbs are hot=
 enough to cook the nail polish. After about 2 hrs the color faded until wh=
at appears now is a dull faint pink.

So its back to the drawing board... anyone want to share how they made thei=
r clear bulbs glow red? If there really such a thing as a bulb condom, wher=
e do I find them---and what are they really called? If you used red paint o=
f some sort, what was it?

Thanks in advance.

Eric

--

Eric Billing
Eagan, MN 55123

eric.billing at eds.com