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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 03:42 PM
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Does anyone else have these dents in there taillights? The driver side is a lot worse than the passenger. Just wondering if it's just me or not. Not even sure why they did it, I'm guessing from the heat.

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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 03:58 PM
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Mine are both dented, but not near that bad. I have to look at the right angle to see it. I would assume it is the heat that causes it.
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 03:58 PM
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heat............................that bulb must be getting really hot!
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 04:00 PM
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i think alot of people who use blackouts have this problem.
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 04:02 PM
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I have seen some of my friends cars do the same exact thing. It was caused by blackouts on their taillights, the heat gets trapped under from the taillight it self and the heat from the sun and dimples the plastic of the light! So it was probaly heat that caused yours to do it! Whether you had blackouts or not the heat just caused it to dimple in. Just my .02 hope that helped
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 04:07 PM
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ditto, its because of blackouts trapping heat
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 04:18 PM
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Well thats what i thought but I've never had blackouts on the car must be really hot out here in the day. Just one more thing to fix!!!
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 05:05 PM
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Mine did that when I was in 5 hours of traffic, the bulbs heat them up and they fall in.
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 05:13 PM
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Mine look just like that from the black out I use to have.
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 05:21 PM
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Mine are dented too...from the balckouts that the first owner put on it.
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 05:24 PM
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Mine look the exact same, i had blackouts on for one day in the parking lot at work for about 12 hours in 90+ degrees. That was 3 years ago and now I hate how blackouts look and everytime I see the dents it is a reminder of how stupid I once was. I ahave been thinking about taking off the lenses and heating them up and reshaping them, i will let you know how it goes when I try it.
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by monsterls1
Mine look the exact same, i had blackouts on for one day in the parking lot at work for about 12 hours in 90+ degrees. That was 3 years ago and now I hate how blackouts look and everytime I see the dents it is a reminder of how stupid I once was. I ahave been thinking about taking off the lenses and heating them up and reshaping them, i will let you know how it goes when I try it.
I am shure you can find some used ones online. Thats what I plan on doing.
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 05:51 PM
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Crap. I just put blackouts on my car. I never thought they would cause that.
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 05:54 PM
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awsome guy thanks for the help will changing the bulbs help like LED's or something?
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 05:55 PM
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smoke, are you the only owner of your car? if not its almost for sure blackouts

and to the guy with the firebird, i dont think it does the same thing to bird lights but i dont know
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 06:54 PM
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You guys with blackouts might want to switch to LED taillight bulbs. No heat what so ever.
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 07:05 PM
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Mine did that without blackouts. But then, it used to be a cop car and the lights were on whenever the car was on.
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 08:43 PM
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I'm not the original owner but i bought it from the original it was only in CO and Germany. When i picked it up from the port here on Guam it was fine. I was working on the breaks and the slides froze and broke off so i have to wait a week to get the part shipped from the states. Once i got the breaks done is when i noticed it. I think from being out in the sun for 1 week when it in the 90 and feels like 105 did the trick. I was just making sure I wasn't the only one that it's happened too.
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Old Oct 11, 2005 | 09:10 PM
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