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Headlight blowing bulbs - imthebest20 - 16-12-2016 12:20pm
The passenger side of my evoque keeps blowing the main HB3 headlight.
I went through 2 bulbs within 2 weeks, no fault codes found or obvious wiring issues so ordered a set of cheap LED bulbs on amazon just purely for the fact that LED don't blow as easy.
Fitted them and everything was fine for almost 2 days then the passenger side started to flicker on/off like a strobe light, then just died.
Does anyone have any idea what could be happening?
RE: Headlight blowing bulbs - XFullFatTim - 16-12-2016 01:41pm
Please can you tell us which model year and the model - Pure/Prestige/Dynamic/SE etc etc as 2011MY to 2015MY are different to the "facelift" 2016 onwards cars.
RE: Headlight blowing bulbs - imthebest20 - 16-12-2016 01:44pm
(16-12-2016 01:41pm)XFullFatTim Wrote: Please can you tell us which model year and the model - Pure/Prestige/Dynamic/SE etc etc as 2011MY to 2015MY are different to the "facelift" 2016 onwards cars.
Pure Tech December 2013
RE: Headlight blowing bulbs - dang - 16-12-2016 05:25pm
my 2012 pure used to do it constantly to the point where they melted the plugs. i had been buying aftermarket bulbs as the originals are pants. and to cap it all you have to buy a complete light unit for the sake of a plug. i managed to source plugs from a suburu and soldered them on. went back to original bulbs and no problems since
RE: Headlight blowing bulbs - RogB - 20-12-2016 09:45am
Ive had similar problems on my 2012 pure with HB3 too. Gone through 4 sets of Hellfrauds 120% brighter bulbs (original are utter pants! ) with bulbs melting or exploding.
Ive now got Bosch pure light bulbs in which so far are ok.
Unfortunately I now have lots of tiny glass fragments in both light units
RE: Headlight blowing bulbs - mjab - 20-12-2016 10:35am
I had a similar problem with my jaguar x type where the bulbs are a pig to change unless you have 3 hands and a torch in your mouth.
In the end the garage I used for servicing cleaned all the electrical connectors and that certainly stopped them blowing so often