**help** Damaged Globe Assembly In Headlight

[J.PATOR34]

Hey guys, umm it seems that my headlight on the RHS is nearly stuffed... My car was fitted with 50 watt globes and were very dull, almost dangerously dull, so i got some 100 watt ones and since then all hell has broken lose! Im not sure what is involved in the compliance process to fit globes that meet australian rules. But my mechanic has always seemed to have had a huge amount of troubble fitting the globes in the housing. Ill try describe it to everyone.

Theres a small washer that the globe sits in, round with one side squared off for the flat edge of the globe to sit agains, then both the globe and the washer sit back in behind the headlight unit. but with mine, there didnt seem to be an easy way to get the washer and globe to lock back in place, so that the globe is properly alligned. Now, when i had my 100watt globes fitted everything seemed to be fixed... nice clear bright lights, but about 1 week after they were fitted, i thought one had blown again, the right hand side one, but when i pulled the globe out to see why it had blown after only a week i saw that the washer has melted some how around the base bit of the globe. So it probly hasnt been sitting/alligned correctly since they were fitted, and the extra heat from the 100watt globes has melted the unique little washer thingy, and its stuck to the globe now....

I dont no wot to do.. The globe hasnt blown, but i think its shorting out somehow. Has anyone else experienced this at all?? How can i go about getting it fixed? Should i contact a compliance place and see if mine has been done dogely? Plz help.... im desperate!!

[raz0r$harP.UK]

Guessing you must have had a GTT with xenons, which were replaced with halogen bulbs during compliance? If so, your lights will most likely be shithouse, especially when it's wet. Unfortunate side-effect of the process, putting a halogen bub in a housing not designed for them.

But you're putting 100W globes in a circuit designed for 55W (or thereabouts). Requires extra power, generates heat -> melted stuff.

Get an autoelectrican to upgrade your headlight wiring if you want to use uprated bulbs in the standard assembly.

[MANWHORE]

Relax. Is the bulb a h1 bulb? if so, it's probably grounded trhough the housing.

The grounding might have been disconnected by the melted 'washer'.

Either that, or the extra heat has melted the wires, which has caused a short. IF so, be worried.

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