(We replaced the bulb before they drove the 3 hours back to their house. Luckily for me, when Brad’s parents came to visit this past weekend they had a burnt out tail light/turn signal bulb so I was able to use their car as my model. You know– the click-click-click sound and the flashing light on your dashboard.
Now, how can you tell if a bulb (either in the front or rear of the car) is going out or has burnt out? The first indication is the speed of your turn signal in your car.
Get it? So when this bulb burns out it elimnates your turn signal AND brake light. So when you’re stopped with your turn signal on one filament stays on while the other blinks. One is for your brake light and one is for your turn signal. There are two filaments in each light bulb. In many newer cars there is one light bulb per tail light. After we told our neighbor this she said she had noticed the warning and said something to her husband about it, but he brushed her off and said not to worry about it. I mean really, who wants to die over a burnt out light bulb? Not I.īut there’s a way to tell if you turn signal/brake light bulb is going out or has burnt out completely. You slam on your brakes, but since your bulbs are burnt out your brake lights never come on so the car or semi-truck behind you doesn’t realize you’re braking until it’s too late. Think about it, you’re on the interstate, going 70 mph, and the car in front of you slams on their brakes. So when she was braking her rear brake lights weren’t coming on at all, which is super dangerous. Since her car has a single bulb system this also meant that her tail lights were also out. Turns out both of her back turn signal bulbs were burnt out. Brad and I said we would check it out for her, so Brad jumped in the car and we did the usual tests (I’ll show you below) to see what was going on. She mentioned how her husband was out of town, and she was going to go to a local mechanic to have her tail lights looked at because they weren’t working. One evening, a couple months ago, Brad and I ran into our next door neighbor while leaving to take Jack on a walk.
#TURN SIGNAL BULB HOW TO#
Today’s car series post is on how to tell if your turn signal bulb has burnt out, which is a very important, potentially life or death situation.
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