Light bulb trouble.

PeteZ06

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I don't know if this is truly a freak coincidence or do I have a problem.

A month ago one of my headlights burns out, no biggie, I pick up a new bulb. A week later the other headlight burns out.

Three days ago one of my fog lights burns out, swapped out with a new bulb and today the other fog light burned out.

What the heck? I've never gone through so many bulbs in such a short period of time.
 

vwmk4

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None at this time, Looking for a nice one though.
May be that they all have been in use for the same time.
Sounds strange but...
 

Matatk

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Not surprising lights go out in a similar time frame since they were installed at the same time and have the same life expectancy.

I'd still take a look at the fuse panel to make sure all is in order.
 

jetlagmech

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on a new car it is common for headlights to go out very close together time frame. the owners manual suggests replacing headlights in pairs, so brightness is even, and I have always been too cheap to do so. And in every new, or almost new, car I have bought has the second headlight go out within a month of the first one. 86 Isuzu, 93 Aerostar, 96 Grand Cherokee, 2001 Suburban, all had the 2nd headlight go out right after the first. On my Jetta I did replace them as a pair. even the replaced headlights went out within a month of each other 2 years later. only have had to replace one brake light bulb so far......... But now that I have said that I just jinxed it.
 

Terry270

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I don't know if this is truly a freak coincidence or do I have a problem.
A month ago one of my headlights burns out, no biggie, I pick up a new bulb. A week later the other headlight burns out.
Three days ago one of my fog lights burns out, swapped out with a new bulb and today the other fog light burned out.
What the heck? I've never gone through so many bulbs in such a short period of time.
Do you have xenon headlights or regular?
 

Terry270

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Non HID

The foglight bulbs are H11, I just swapped them out so I remember :)
OK cool. I have the xenon and I don't see those going out anytime soon. They usually last quite a while. Going to sting more when they do though lol
 
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