Re: Please help looking for bulb socket!
Originally Posted by
pizzaguy
The issue with them is that one of the contacts wear down over time. I had this with my second car, I just built the contact up with a little solder and that fixed it.
With your background I doubt you meant the word wear because why would they wear away? There is no cause for abrasion, a poor contact that sparks will burn the surfaces away little by little, hence the hole in some failed socket contacts. I would imagine some dielectric grease would help the situation greatly.
The best long term contact would be in a dry environment but the socket often operates in an humid atmosphere which would lead to surface corrosion of the contact materials, the socket does have an O-ring at the back but the bulb end is open to the atmosphere inside the headlamp itself and as we know from the water visible in these quite often, it cannot be too dry inside some headlights. Can this visible humidity inside the headlight unit be an indicator common to failed or soon to fail sockets?
New sockets should be found in the links here, I'll confirm when I get mine.
Last edited by onehundred80; 07-30-2015 at 04:38 PM.