Before and after....

But something blew out my brake lamps, and the BAS warning is on. Wonder if I blew the brake lamp switch again.

 

I assume your brake lights do not work? Those newer taillights use the 2000+ light bulb holders. They are like $15-$20 from the dealership and that should fix your problem.

 

Thanks! Is that what I should ask the dealer for? "light bulb holders"?

 

Haha, not exactly "light bulb holders," I don't know the formal name for them. But you should only need them for the brake light sockets. You should notice that not all of the metal prongs are touching the circruit on the back of your new taillights.

 

i have a new one for free if you wan tit

 

All I did was bend the connectors on my old 'brake light sockets', that is what I did on my rear taillights....and I have yet to purchase a new set of brake light sockets. They hold pretty well, and when you go over a bump they don't come loose. Goodluck!

 

Sure, yes. I also have an extra burlwood ashtray unit for you. I posted that a while back but you didn't respond.

 

I tried that, but the metal backing which is supposed to conduct the power to the 3 little connectors was apparently beaten with a hammer at some point, so I cannot get all 3 metal points to securely make contact. I even tried tinfoil and duct tape.

 

I did that to, worked for a day and then popped out of place. It continuted to pop out of place and becoming really annoying so I went and bought the real deal.

 

What I did was put some solder on the ends and it beefed them up enough to make great contact.
No problems since I did that.

 

sure, pm me your addresse, i'll ship it out 2morrow.

 

Hmmm, that sounds like a pretty good idea, thanks.

I too changed from the eggs to an aftermarket, non OEM tail light set. I too bent the contacts out.....and it worked, but not anymore. I keep getting the lamp failure message....guess they just get fatigued after a while.

Screwing around with the socket, I managed to short it out and set off allkinds of fun stuff, the BAS Warning, knocked out my passenger marker and city lights - turns out it snapped one of the 7.5 amp fuses ever so slightly, almost escaped my eye.

The aftermarket lights look nice - but DAYUM, the circuit boards on the rear are just junk.

I'll try the bead of solder trick.

 

Hmmm, that sounds like a pretty good idea, thanks.

I too changed from the eggs to an aftermarket, non OEM tail light set. I too bent the contacts out.....and it worked, but not anymore. I keep getting the lamp failure message....guess they just get fatigued after a while.

Screwing around with the socket, I managed to short it out and set off allkinds of fun stuff, the BAS Warning, knocked out my passenger marker and city lights - turns out it snapped one of the 7.5 amp fuses ever so slightly, almost escaped my eye.

The aftermarket lights look nice - but DAYUM, the circuit boards on the rear are just junk.

I'll try the bead of solder trick.

 

my friend blew the fuse on my car like that last night

 

yeah, that's gonna work.
Brenton, dont waste your time.

 

well dumbass, why doubt what you dont understand, whats his face, in god knows where already got his money. secondly its not like i'm charging him anything, i'm sending it to him for free, i bought one on saturday and latter found out it wasn't the source of the problem.

 

Tin foil goes in the connector, not on the head.

 

get off my nuts. nobody cares about your sob story.

 

thats a funny comment i have to admit. but lets let the moderator decide if he wants the part....

 

LOL ,
The same thing crossed my mind as well.
Someone bump this in about a week to see if its rcvd.

 

they should, being that me n RBrenton never spoke

 

I did this tonight, and yup, does the trick nicely.

 

I found two blown fuses in the dash box. I had no idea this car had three different fuse boxes. Amazing what you learn from the user manual.

I need to try the solder idea. So you guys soldered extra metal onto the bulb connector prongs to make them longer, right? I assume this allows you to twist off the connector housing in the future in order to replace bulbs as needed?

 

glad to see my lights found a good home did you have to do anymore shaving? they look great on your white 430.

 

I didn't need to shave them at all...fit right in. What did you do to the right side outer plate? The metal conductor plate is all bent up.