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Parking Lights filling with water?
03-03-2009, 09:22 PM
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Parking Lights filling with water? Im just wondering if anybody else is experiencing or experienced this problem every time it rains my parking lights fill with water and screw up my bulbs and I have to clean the sockets I took them off and couldnt see any cracks.
Any body else have this problem?
Any body else have this problem?
03-03-2009, 09:54 PM
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about 500 other people have his problem
my sockets corroded to the point that i had to replace them. i went with the $8 autozone ones instead of the $50 a pop dealer ones.
might wanna try sealing it better with some silicon while you're in there so it doesn't happen again
my sockets corroded to the point that i had to replace them. i went with the $8 autozone ones instead of the $50 a pop dealer ones.
might wanna try sealing it better with some silicon while you're in there so it doesn't happen again
03-04-2009, 01:01 PM
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yeah i'm not sure where the water actually gets in but i'd assume there. some people recommend siliconing in the whole socket but it'd be really annoying to change bulbs then.
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03-06-2009, 07:34 PM
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Dude I have had a lot of ta's and yes they all ******* did that, it drives me crazy. I have found that the crack is on the inside where you can't see a lot of the time. On my current car there was a small crack in the front and I painted it with clear fingernail polish and it worked good, no more water.
03-28-2009, 10:47 AM
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Dude I have had a lot of ta's and yes they all ******* did that, it drives me crazy. I have found that the crack is on the inside where you can't see a lot of the time. On my current car there was a small crack in the front and I painted it with clear fingernail polish and it worked good, no more water.
03-28-2009, 11:21 AM
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I pulled mine out and sanded them down with 40 grit then 180/320/800 and finally 1500 grit. The are clearer now than new. I shot them with about 4 heavy coats of Hi-Temp engine clear coat. I replaced the sockets, filled them with Di-electrical grease and coated the part of the socket that goes into the housing with #2 permatex (it's silicone that doesn't harden). Haven't had a problem since.
My biggest issue was the lenses had hair line cracks in them and that would let moisture in.
Give it a shot its a fun and easy little project.
My biggest issue was the lenses had hair line cracks in them and that would let moisture in.
Give it a shot its a fun and easy little project.
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In my case the heat of the bulb cracked the housing just above the bulb and water would drip on and destroy the new bulb. I simply put a heavy layer of silicone over the cracked area and no more blown bulbs due to water
08-23-2009, 07:08 PM
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It doesn't matter where you get your new lenses from, they will crack...over and over. It's the heat from bulbs, the bulbs are constantly on and these lenses just weren't made to handle it.
You want to end this nightmare once and for all and never have to mess with it again, do the following...
Here's what I did and my lenses look as new as the day I installed them months later.
Get new lenses, seal the outer seam with silicone, that blue tube from autozone will do just fine. Get LED turn signal bulbs. Take a packet of dessicant, you know the kind you'll find in a jar of vitamins and dab a little silicone on the back of it and put it inside the lens housing in the back and on the bottom so it's out of sight. Now when you remove your old bulbs, spray the inside of the socket with MAF cleaner, get it all nice and clean inside (watch your eyes it's a strong stream I kept a paper towel over the end of the tube from the can to avoid splashback) then liberally coat the bottom of your new bulbs with bulb grease and install.
You do all that and your lenses will never crack nor will they get that cruddy hazed over look they get in one week from install because heat cracked them and is allowing moisture to come in and then when the bulb heats up dries it making a nice thick coating of crud right over the the shiny refective surface on the rear of the lens.
The LED turn signal bulbs I got are called switchbacks, they glow white until you use your turn signal then they blink amber, trick eh?
You can of course also get the regular amber always ones if you prefer.
They aren't cheap around 25 a piece so budget accordingly.
You want to end this nightmare once and for all and never have to mess with it again, do the following...
Here's what I did and my lenses look as new as the day I installed them months later.
Get new lenses, seal the outer seam with silicone, that blue tube from autozone will do just fine. Get LED turn signal bulbs. Take a packet of dessicant, you know the kind you'll find in a jar of vitamins and dab a little silicone on the back of it and put it inside the lens housing in the back and on the bottom so it's out of sight. Now when you remove your old bulbs, spray the inside of the socket with MAF cleaner, get it all nice and clean inside (watch your eyes it's a strong stream I kept a paper towel over the end of the tube from the can to avoid splashback) then liberally coat the bottom of your new bulbs with bulb grease and install.
You do all that and your lenses will never crack nor will they get that cruddy hazed over look they get in one week from install because heat cracked them and is allowing moisture to come in and then when the bulb heats up dries it making a nice thick coating of crud right over the the shiny refective surface on the rear of the lens.
The LED turn signal bulbs I got are called switchbacks, they glow white until you use your turn signal then they blink amber, trick eh?
You can of course also get the regular amber always ones if you prefer.
They aren't cheap around 25 a piece so budget accordingly.
