headlight bulb blew up

EnProceso · 11-06-2003

when i left for my lunch at work, i saw in the reflection of a building my passenger side headlight went out (i have eurolite headlights) so i was like "aw that sucks" so as i continue home i pull up behind a car and look in the reflection again and BOTH headlights are out, so now i'm like "WTF!!?!?!" so when i get home i look at passenger side bulb (the one that went out first), its blown then i look at the other and it blew up to pieces! wtf happened? its not like it got a heavy dose of watts or something cuz arent the headlights like independent from each other? so now i got all these little pieces of bulb stuck in my headlight that i have to figure out how to get out.

any ideas on why it did that?

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speedracersong · 11-06-2003

gremlins? ahaha.

maybe a ground got loose and shocked the system and the bulb blew?
u should use a strong shop vac to get the pieces out.

Hefe · 11-06-2003

"How to get them out?"

Take apart your headlight and clean it out!

EnProceso · 11-06-2003

thats a fat hassle to do, especially when its cold and rainy and you dont have a garage...

mInImE · 11-06-2003

I think that you should take apart your headlight and might as well clear them while your doing it...

DroppIN808 · 11-06-2003

If you take it apart spray the chrome area black/gunmetal color. I wanna do that as soon as i have time and feel like doing it.

bickford05 · 11-06-2003

You probaly wont be able to just suck the glass out. That happend to me to, and when the hot glass hit the plastic it melted to it. You just have to take them apart like when you clear them and pull all the glass off. It left alot of scraches inside my headlight too, I used plastic polish and that took some of them out. It could have happend if there is a scrach on the coating at the end of the bulb, or if you got oil or dirt on the bulb.
Its a pain in the ass but the you jus gotta take it apart... good luck

armieo · 11-06-2003

does that mean that your little silver center cap thing that covers the bulb has been blown to smithereens?

randalldreynold · 11-06-2003

mine done that 2 i took my head light out and shook it for a long time(had 2 take bulb out). but the bulb where it was hot melted the chrome where the little peices of bulb was. and it smoked my glass a yellow color had 2 clean that 2

HYPR DRV · 11-06-2003

This seems pretty normal to me. Mine just did that a week ago. I had the 100W Eurolites and they lasted about a year until last week when I noticed little blue shards of glass all over the inside of my headlight. They will explode after time at that wattage. Have to take it apart to get the glass out. Good excuse to clear 'em.

mkingk2 · 11-06-2003

wow that sux, it happened on my integra

I left the glass in it

streetglower · 11-10-2003

my HID's just did that, $400 kit and they blew up, there is little glass pieces all over my headlights, still trying to figure out what the hell happened.

EnProceso · 11-10-2003

i'm trying to ghetto rig a clothes hanger with some tape on the end and atleast get the bigger pieces of the glass, hopefully they are not melted to the housing...