[Vwdiesel] Left turn signal
Roger Brown
r.c.brown at ieee.org
Sat Mar 11 15:16:47 EST 2006
LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/11/2006 11:06:03 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> gbangs at cfl.rr.com writes:
>
>> I would start with the bulb itself. A bi-polar bulb if not seated
>> correctly, could short the two together.
>>
>
>
> I thought the signal bulbs were solo and the brake were combined with
> a park light?
> Loren
Yes, I think it is a separate bulb, but there may be a share ground connection with all the lights. I would check that out. I once had problems with one brake light not working at night (worked fine when the other lights were off). Turned out there was
a bad ground inside the connector and the parking light and brake light were ground through each other (when the other filament was off of course). But when they were both supposed to be on (and you had 12 volts on both filaments) no current would flow
and thus no light. I changed bulbs a few times (in daylight of course) and viola the problem was fixed, until the next time I drove at night (DOH!).
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Roger
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