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In Australia we have no bulletins for this concern. I had never even heard of the resistor mod.We have been having very good results with cleaning headlight earths and the wiring terminals between Alt and ECU. High resistance causing excess current and spikes.
Ok had a quick look through the thread and as you already know it is a common occurance.In Australia we have no bulletins for this concern. I had never even heard of the resistor mod.We have been having very good results with cleaning headlight earths and the wiring terminals between Alt and ECU. High resistance causing excess current and spikes.Alot of cases we replace the globes with genuine longlife globes and never hear about it again. The longlife globes are rated to 960hrs where the standards are only 400hrs.
Quote from: cruiserfied on July 14, 2014, 13:04:38Ok had a quick look through the thread and as you already know it is a common occurance.In Australia we have no bulletins for this concern. I had never even heard of the resistor mod.We have been having very good results with cleaning headlight earths and the wiring terminals between Alt and ECU. High resistance causing excess current and spikes.Alot of cases we replace the globes with genuine longlife globes and never hear about it again. The longlife globes are rated to 960hrs where the standards are only 400hrs.On other threads I have recommended Phillips long life eco vision globes. Since I wacked these bad boys in, problem solvered. There is a thread somewhere, but from memory I threw the troublesome passengers side globe in at 80k, I've done 130k and I do a lot of night driving.....They are rated to 1500 hours.
I'm now up to about six years' total i30 ownership and I haven't had a single blow.