I'm still wondering about the 15-year headlamp in the first place.
that is a figment of someone's imagination. I said that I last had a bulb fail on me in 1989 and then someone interpreted that as me driving around in the same car (with the same bulb) ever since.
Got a ticket... Thoughts 3139Ya know, equating total brake failure and wheels falling off (generally attached to the rotors) with one headlamp is well insane. Well, then here, you can chasitise me...
in 1989 I drove a 1968 VW Beetle 1500. it came with a full set of spare bulbs in a neat, padded, green box with a transparent lid. the set included spares for the indicators, the rear lights, the interior lights etc.
I had the car for about 5 years. I would buttume the car to have had its bulbs changed previously as part of scheduled maintainance, but I don't know if this was the case for this car. the spare bulb functioned just fine after being in the spares box in the glove compartment for at least 5 years; possibly longer (if it was the original spare it would have been 21 years old at the time).
in the time since then I have not had a headlight fail on me. no magic 15 year old bulb involved. my current car is 4 years old.
Presumably Bjorn has a headlight which takes a bulb, not a sealed beam (thus smaller). But they still aren't going to have an average lifetime over 15 years if they're used much.
in Norway you always drive with your lights on. day or night. on a bad day I'd say every 20'th car has a problem with the headlights here. in the dark and on some stretches of road here, having just one headlight can be a bit of a problem (hence the two spares just in case).
-Bj¿rn
