"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
05/07/2018 at 09:30 • Filed to: None
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"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
05/07/2018 at 09:30 • Filed to: None | 1
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Had a couple issues I wanted to address with the fleet this weekend. Forest needed headlights and the driver’s power window was giving me issues. The Soul had blown a brake light.
Forest’s repairs were pretty straight forward. When I had fixed the window last year I hadn’t tightened a couple bolts enough and they had fallen out. Oops! Some blue loctite should help that out.
When I went to check what bulbs I needed for the soul I found something perplexing. The brake light assembly has three bulbs. The middle one for backing up, the bottom one for braking that also lights up with the headlights are on and the top one that just lights up when the headlights are on.
For some reason both the bulbs in the red were two phase. Even though the top bulb has no wiring to illuminate the second filament. I simply swapped the top and bottom bulbs and hey presto all was good.
Seems like Kia could have saved a couple cents and used a bulb with one filament in the top.
Also the brake light assembly is a huge panel!
Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
> CalzoneGolem
05/07/2018 at 09:49 |
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I guess for the sake of BOM simplification? That is interesting. I was going to say some cars light up additional brake lights under hard braking (Volvo) or have provisions for a rear fog lamp in a spot like that... but as you don’t have the wire it doesn’t sound like any of those.
And yeah, tail light assembles look so small until they’re off the car, then they’re HUGE!
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CalzoneGolem
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
05/07/2018 at 09:55 |
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BOM simplification is all I can think of. It was quite helpful in this instance.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> CalzoneGolem
05/07/2018 at 10:05 |
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Somehow I still want to see one of these with a Starsky and Hutch paint job and the license plate “DAVID”.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> CalzoneGolem
05/07/2018 at 12:19 |
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I think my high beams use a dual filament bulb even though there’s a seperate low beam unit right next to it.