blowing brake light bulbs

[Stephen]

as you face the rear of the car my drivers side inner bulb keeps blowing. i recently recommissioned the issue as i realise only the outer bulbs where lighting up the inners on closer inspection, one was blown teh other cut to stop the brake light lighting up. im assuming this was for mot or whateer as they couldnt be bothered to fix the problem so they hid it. id rather like to fix the issue. im assuming its an earth falut? anyone else ever had this issue? it may last a few days then pop. back on three bulbs. even with all the bulbs in the lights warning display comes up on the dash.... any suggestions?

[groover]

Someone probably tried to wire them up as fog lights. I wouldnt bother with trying to find what they did to it, i would wire the inner bulb holders to the outer, therefore bypassing the possible short causing your problem.

[Stephen]

ok, sounds good to me. and yeh i think tahst what they did exactly, however they have ended up wiring the sidelights up as fogs.

whilst where on the subject can i use an led subsitue for the indicators as i feel they really arnt bright enough in day time.

[groover]

You can, but you will need a load resistor for each side wired across the feed and ground, alternatively you can replace the flasher relay with an led relay, so if you wanted at some stage to replace all your indicators to led, it would flash at the correct speed.

 

Load resistor http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2pcs-Car-Vehicle-LED-Lights-Load-Resistors-6-Ohm-50W-/320659140021?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4aa8c62db5

[Stephen]

ah tahts very uisefull thankyou for that

[Medallion Man]

alternatively....

 

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=133770&referrerid=16305

 

and the units on ebay...

 

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=LED+Flasher+Unit&_sacat=See-All-Categories