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Offline Exlimey

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Melting interior light
« on: Monday,May 24, 2021, 07:08:57 AM »
This may have been covered before but,working on the car with the door open for a while, I found that the interior light completly melted its switch . I have replaced the bulb with Sylvania 6418 LED. Now it only works when door opens but that’s fine with me. Original festoon was 5w.
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Offline BDA

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Re: Melting interior light
« Reply #1 on: Monday,May 24, 2021, 07:26:29 AM »
I don’t believe I’ve heard of that before! The melting obviously screwed up the switch. Another reason to use LEDs. A new lamp should be pretty easy to find if you decide you want it.
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Offline 4129R

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Re: Melting interior light
« Reply #2 on: Monday,May 24, 2021, 09:26:30 AM »
Could be a faulty manual switch on the light itself.

It happened to me.
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Offline jbcollier

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Re: Melting interior light
« Reply #3 on: Monday,May 24, 2021, 09:55:49 AM »
The interior lights are plastic and not meant for continuous use.  I've seen lots of melted ones on MGBs.
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