Arse!

[Biggles]

Rear fog lamp switched itself on and refused to go off tonight - all poultrygoose like. Why do these things always happen in the pitch dark and pissing rain like a fecking B movie?

Armed with a torch, screwdriver and car manual I removed the lens cover with an ominous crack of which there was no mention of in the instruction and removed the offending bulb so I might have the benefit of an unflat battery tomorrow. Burned fingers in the process.

Not happy. Looked up fault on the interwebs and it appears I am not the first to travel this road. Thank you Nissan

[mjmacky]

Thread title, arse
Object mentioned in post, bulb

Has the story already finished? What happened with the warm-to-the-touch bulb?

[Biggles]

Thread title, arse
Object mentioned in post, bulb

Has the story already finished? What happened with the scalding-to-the-touch bulb?

It is sitting on my table. I intend to give it to my garage to replace once they have figured out what the hell is going on (having first assured me that my warranty covers this).

Edit: the arse refers to my singed fingers btw and the general lack of merriment I feel over the matter.

[mjmacky]

Thread title, arse
Object mentioned in post, bulb

Has the story already finished? What happened with the scalding-to-the-touch bulb?

It is sitting on my table. I intend to give it to my garage to replace once they have figured out what the hell is going on (having first assured me that my warranty covers this).

Edit: the arse refers to my singed fingers btw and the general lack of merriment I feel over the matter.

I thought you were going to say, "then I sat on the table". This has been a disappointing turn of events, thinking that I could catch just a glimpse of Sylvanian porn.

[Biggles]

It is sitting on my table. I intend to give it to my garage to replace once they have figured out what the hell is going on (having first assured me that my warranty covers this).

Edit: the arse refers to my singed fingers btw and the general lack of merriment I feel over the matter.

I thought you were going to say, "then I sat on the table". This has been a disappointing turn of events, thinking that I could catch just a glimpse of Sylvanian porn.

Alas my lack of merriment means that there will be no sexy time - Sylvanian or otherwise.

[Artemis]

I thought you were going to say, "then I sat on the table". This has been a disappointing turn of events, thinking that I could catch just a glimpse of Sylvanian porn.

Alas my lack of merriment means that there will be no sexy time - Sylvanian or otherwise.

I can hazard a guess as to where you would like to insert said bulb, if given half a chance.

[Biggles]

Alas my lack of merriment means that there will be no sexy time - Sylvanian or otherwise.

I can hazard a guess as to where you would like to insert said bulb, if given half a chance.

Unfortunately the nearest Nissan dealer is many miles away.

[Artemis]

I can also relate a tale of woe regarding a car of mine, the irritation that ensued was of a slightly higher order though. The car in question was an Isuzu Bighorn (GMC trooper for merkins) it's also a Vauxhall something, an Opel something else and a Holden Monterey (they just stick different badges on basically). It was a diesel model and one evening while my wife was driving, it started to rev even with her foot off the accelerator. She pulled to the side of the road because it was concerning, but had to keep her foot firmly on the brake pedal. So she put it into park, at which point the motor redlined and smoke started to pour out of the exhaust. Being a tough Scottish chick, she lifted the bonnet and pulled the leads from the battery to try and cut electrical power (being a diesel this of course made no difference) and the motor continued to rev. After about five minutes the engine blew leaving her in the dark on the side of the road.

This, although understandably upsetting wasn't what really left us dumbfounded....it was the letter that arrived two weeks later announcing a recall on all Isuzu models with the 4JX1 diesel engine before a certain date of manufacture, because of a fault in the fuel injectors which could cause them to fail and and leak fuel into the engine casing thereby potentially causing an engine overrun.We contacted Isuzu directly, but were told that they would not honour any obligation under the recall even though the fault mentioned had already occurred to us, since we were not the original purchasers of the car.I didn't want to insert a bulb up their collective arses at this point but rather the whole 4x4.

[Biggles]

I didn't want to insert a bulb up their collective arses at this point but rather the whole 4x4.

Packed with C4 explosives I shouldn't wonder. What am absolute shower!

[evlo]

I once remove xeon bulb and turned on headlight - result is most of car electronic fried. So at least your was stupid design, mine was stupid me.