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06-25-2014, 01:49 AM | #1 |
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Why is my turn signal socket like this?
Ever since I bought the car a couple months ago, my driver's side orange corner light has been noticeably dimmer than the passenger side.
This morning I woke up and noticed my left blinker was blinking twice as fast, along with a warning for a burnt out bulb. After work, the warning went away and the blinker blinked just fine. When I got home, I pulled the socket for the turn signal out of the headlight and found this: The light is dim, but it works. I tried swapping bulbs, but the light is still dim. I swapped sockets and the problem followed the socket. Why would it be like this? Is it a danger to continue to use this?
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Mine has done this twice in 1 year now, pretty frustrating since it costs $30 with shipping and takes over a week.
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Just a quick note on this. I had a very similar issue with a bulb in a cooker hood(bulb kept blowing), mentioned it in passing to a friend one night said he'd had the same but had been told to smear the exposed metal contacts with Vaseline. I did it that night and same bulb in place 7 years later!
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