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tail lights flooded...

Old April-7th-2003 | 03:52 PM
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tail lights flooded...

I'm still trying to figure out why, but basicly my center left tailight (the one with the back up light) flooded for no apperent reason the last few days we had thunder storms. There is still water in it, and I'm glad it didn't freeze today. The thing is I've washed ym car many times before and it never flooded, and I have not done anything, but blast the radio(trunk vibrating), or at least 3-4 bars on the stock radio, if anyone has it, I doubt that would od it. I've heard of altazzas getting condensation, but there was no condesation or anything, you couldn't tell anything, it all of a sudden just flooded. I opened my trunk and water poored out of the revrse bulb socket. I'll take it off when it's a bit nicer outside to see what happened, but otherwise, I'm just suppriesed, that something that odd happned. This might mean another trip to the junk yard.
Old April-11th-2003 | 10:51 PM
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mine used to that too, had to seal all the lights and the center emblem piece on the upper part of the trunk, now its fine..just take some clear seal
Old April-15th-2003 | 11:08 AM
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Join the club. After that T-storm we had last week mine were also filled with water. For my reverse lights, Last year i drilled a "drain" hole on the inside bottom of the reverse light housing. But for the red part i had about an inch of standing water in the passangers side, and i dunno how to get rid of it. But with the almost 90 degree heat yesterday, most of it is gone, but the inside is all "steamy".
Old April-15th-2003 | 09:22 PM
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The way Igot rid of mine, is open the trunk and it all drianed out the reverse bulb hole. I still have to take them off to see what's up. But yesterday I washed my car and they diddn't fill up. I even made sure I soaked that lighed with water, oh well.
Old April-15th-2003 | 09:45 PM
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well, it's gonna rain tomorrow, we'll see if it happens again...

JCD1006: what dod you use to seal them? al you said was some clear seal, and i don't know anything about sealing something like the lights...
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