Tail Light Problems

[jcchevytruck]

I have a 1998 Chevy truck 1500 (Silverado package).

 

The plastic around the electrode wire of one of my tail light bulbs (middle bulb of the rear driver's side assembly) keeps melting. This causes the wire to sink into the melted plastic region of the base of the bulb far enough to break contact with the electrode in the socket of the assembly, which prevents the bulb from working and produces the fast blink on the dash panel. I have changed the bulb twice, and it does the same thing after a while.

 

I bought the truck in '05 and it only started doing it this year.

 

What up?

 

tnx,

 

jc

[MS3DALE]

Sounds like you need the circuit board that the bulb goes into,That was a common issue on the GMT400 trucks.

[Guest Riggs]

if that doesnt work try LED bulbs....

 

www.superbrightleds.com

 

you need a electronic flasher though... or it you only want to do 2 bulbs you can just use a couple resistors....

LED,s make almost no heat at all so you wont ever have to worry about it melting..

[jcchevytruck]

Sounds like you need the circuit board that the bulb goes into,That was a common issue on the GMT400 trucks.

 

Thanks for the info. I figured that would be the worst possible scenario. But I wanted to check here first.

 

In the socket (and therefore, on the initial bulb I removed) was a hardened substance that may have been paste at one time. I was wondering if that might have served as a heat-sink of some sort. Never heard of that. Maybe it was supposed to water-proof the connection.

 

Btw, would you know if there was a recall on the circuit boards, considering it was a common problem?

 

tnx again,

 

jc

[jcchevytruck]

if that doesnt work try LED bulbs....

 

www.superbrightleds.com

 

you need a electronic flasher though... or it you only want to do 2 bulbs you can just use a couple resistors....

LED,s make almost no heat at all so you wont ever have to worry about it melting..

 

I went to that sight but didn't see anything I could use. I would only want a direct replacement bulb (assembly of leds). That sight didn't seem to have that.

 

Regarding the electronic flasher, do you mean a replacement for the relay kind (provided that's still how things are done)? Where would I find that?

 

tnx again,

 

jc

[MS3DALE]

Sounds like you need the circuit board that the bulb goes into,That was a common issue on the GMT400 trucks.

 

Btw, would you know if there was a recall on the circuit boards, considering it was a common problem?

 

jc

 

 

No,There was no recall,I just remember it being a common issue,I use to sell a lot of them!