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Re: rear light housings / chrome paint

To: Peter Zaborski <plz@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: rear light housings / chrome paint
From: Rob Pennington <robp@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 07:02:48 -0500
My car had the same symptoms with one brake light that was 
significantly dimmer than the other.  The fix in this case was a new 
socket with a grounding connector and a wire to ground rather than 
using the ground supplied by the tail light assembly.

Rob
74 TR6 daily driver

At 10:37 PM -0600 8/1/05, Peter Zaborski wrote:
>Hi Listers,
>
>I recently noticed that one of my taillights is dimmer than the other one
>(left one is dimmer). Only the rear park light and brake light are dimmer,
>the rest of the lights are evenly bright. So I did the usual diagnostic
>process, swap left and right bulbs, swap left and right bulb holders,
>measure voltage, etc. No apparent faults, it's always the left light that's
>dimmer, voltage is the same at each light.




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