JMoney02
01-07-2009, 05:06 PM
To all who have experienced the dreaded one bulb out on your DRL'S, or have seen them on other vehicle's, or have not had the issue yet, but will here I hope will help you out.
1) Owner's manual calls for 4157LL bulb replacement(LL=Long Life)
2) If you have/use the Auto On feature for your headlights and when switch from DRL to Headlights and back, these bulbs will NOT handle the load.
3) This causes failure when you change even from a dark area(tunnel) back to daylight, the load is to much, which causes the bulb to pop...
4) You can changed from the 4157LL to the 3157LL, because these are higher intense bulbs used for your turns/stop lights.
5) You can also use the 3157NA(Amber bulbs), to which I have them in my truck(look at my Burban Album) as I will post a picture of it there.
6) Use a healthy amount of electrical contact grease before installing(any of the bulbs) that use this type of connector(4 strip silver wires). This will ease the heat from them being on/off.Hope this simple change will help make your DRL bulbs last a whole lot longer....Jeff
1) Owner's manual calls for 4157LL bulb replacement(LL=Long Life)
2) If you have/use the Auto On feature for your headlights and when switch from DRL to Headlights and back, these bulbs will NOT handle the load.
3) This causes failure when you change even from a dark area(tunnel) back to daylight, the load is to much, which causes the bulb to pop...
4) You can changed from the 4157LL to the 3157LL, because these are higher intense bulbs used for your turns/stop lights.
5) You can also use the 3157NA(Amber bulbs), to which I have them in my truck(look at my Burban Album) as I will post a picture of it there.
6) Use a healthy amount of electrical contact grease before installing(any of the bulbs) that use this type of connector(4 strip silver wires). This will ease the heat from them being on/off.Hope this simple change will help make your DRL bulbs last a whole lot longer....Jeff