Date: Tue, 29 Aug 00 15:41:43 GMT From: amesnopsamrak.demon.co.uk (Andrew Stephenson) Subject: Re: Saab 1999 9-5 Headlights
In article <gjNq5.14$gg.16755nopsamoon.southeast.rr.com> Tsykesnopsamd.rr.com "Ask The MasterTech" writes: > Have your dealer shut off the Daytime running lights. If you do > this you will save the bulbs as well. Daytime running lights > means that your lights are on all the time which makes you > replace your bulb significantly more often. [...] I am puzzled by this. Surely SAAB are no worse at choosing and using their lamp bulbs than Volvo are. Yet my Volvo 440, at five years old and with always-on running lights, has needed one front and one rear sidelight replaced. (Maybe I'll get a flock of dead bulbs tomorrow. <g>) Admittedly it has only done some 38,000 mi; but if this problem is "known" for some SAABs (stated in another posting), we must be allowed to wonder at what's happening. Life shortens if a bulb is run above its rated voltage. Could (accidentally) designed-in defective voltage regulation be to blame? -- Andrew Stephenson
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