 Re: Headlights -GM
"Harry Face" <harryface@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:11799-4049163E-203@storefull-3115.bay.webtv.net...
| Perhaps the headlight capsule can't handle the excess heat, so only two
| are then lit instead of four. Look at the 97 Grand Prix's, notorious
| for the plastic headlight lens to literally fall off when driving.
|
| A friend with a 92 Century drove for over a year with his high beams on
| thinking that his low beam ( which was burned out for a year ) would
| come on when the highbeams were on, but that wasn't the case.
|
| The same Century had the LH turnsignal lens fall off the back part of
| the housing. That was probably due to a poor adhesion not heat.
|
| Only two lights on at a time here.
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| Harryface
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| 1991 Pontiac Bonneville LE
| 3800 V6 ( C ), Black/Slate Grey
| _~_~_~_~277, 300 miles_~_~_ ~_~_
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Quite possible. It could also be that they didn't design the reflective optics
to be used as a high-beam on the low-beam side on some models. In that case, a
user-designed conversion _may_ throw the wrong hi-beam pattern (illegal).
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