Thread: D3 brakes lights

I can accept that one can switch the tail light and brake light globes with LED units, but I would doubt that would be so with the signal lights, at least without installing resistors. Would I be correct?

And yes, I would agree it is possible to have both brake light filaments burned at approximately the same time. One goes, you do not notice it, and then the second goes and that you also do not notice. Then one day you back up to a reflective window, check your brake lights and find you have none, or that the high one is all you have.

In the same time frame, the tail light filaments have done the same.

I recall a few years back, my wife's Honda Accord lacked headlights, (or more correctly, daytime running lights as it was summer time), and neither side would illuminate. That had me real puzzled until it occurred that perhaps both were burned out - as was the case - one one day I suppose and the second the next day. It was summer and the sun kind of does not set here in the summer, was daylight use only so to speak, so one does not readily notice.

The jpg is the backside of a D3 tail light.

On the left are the two screw holes referenced in the previous post; also the tits that hold the outside to the body and self release when pulled directly rearward after the two Phillips (I think) screws, have been removed.

The bulbs are accessed in the usual way as referenced in the previous post.

If there is any trick, it is not to drop the assembly once the single cable connector has been unplugged, but that is not necessary.