Check Your Driving Lights for Safety
October 17th, 2008If you have ever had the experience of being pulled over you know the immediate sense of distress that sets in when you see the blue and red lights from the police car in your rear view mirror. This unfortunate event happened to me just the other week, only this time I wasn’t speeding or hadn’t forgot to signal a turn, rather my driving lights were simply not working correctly and appeared to be flickering. The officer was nice enough to give me a warning with a recommendation to get them replaced. Knowing a bit about automotive replacement parts such as light bulbs I did replace them myself. In addition I also checked my fog lights at the same time, only to find that they also were flickering when the car was moving.
Luckily my mechanic was able to trace back this mystery problem to a short in the wiring harness in the lighting system of the vehicle. He said that without repairing this short, I would continue to go through lights like crazy as well as running the risk of actually getting a ticket the next time. My words of advice to you if you are having trouble with constantly having to change out lights in your vehicle is to have a mechanic check out the wiring, it may be the culprit is not your light bulbs at all.
