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Melting tail lights 200 1990

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posted by  Art Benstein on  Sun Jan 19 16:17 CST 2020
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You bet.

If you're talking about brake lighting, one of the mods Tony Hoffman suggested used steering diodes to gang up the fog lamp sockets with the brake lamps for a full 42 watts of "get off my tail" while still allowing for fog light use.

His mod is described in one of his pages hosted on my web site: http://cleanflametrap.com/tony/adding_fog_lights.htm

The wagon suffers the melted plastic issue just as badly as the sedan does as moisture intrusion increases the contact resistance between the bulb sockets and the metal strips on the lamp housing. The aftermarket tail lamps I've seen are atrocious in that regard with the wrong plating on both sockets and strips in my most humble opinion.





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Art Benstein near Baltimore

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New 1 I hard wired my 240 Taillights [200][1990]
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