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Originally Posted by Hcbeck2689
Put on new shoes
Change side turning light plastic to white plastic and white bulb to yellow bulb!
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Nice upgrade. My X came that way. Wife's is still amber lens.
Another mod I did to my X is that I tweaked my tail light so that all four brake lamps light since they use two-filament lamps for the run only light.
The 01 model didn't apparently have wiring to the bright filament but my lenses were replaced due to an accident from P O. The connector didn't have a pin for the bright filament on the second lamp but the light assembly had the wiring for it and the mod was crazy simple to do. I drilled a 1/16" hole in the two metal bars I wanted to connect and took some 1/16" spring steel wire and made some jumpers that look like staples.
Very happy with the results. Not only twice the brake light brightness, the whole red lights up bright and maybe more importantly, I have redundancy: when a lamp fails that side will just be dimmer.
I ended up discovering the internal wiring for the bright filament on MY X that's not on wife's when her brake lights failed from a design flaw in the lamp assembly.
The metal ring that forms the contact for the bulb is held in position by a plastic post that is melted into a plastic rivet at the top. The problem (design failure) is that when eventually the contact gets dirty the resistance causes heat to generate and the spring pressure on the contact pushes the contact away when it gets hot enough to melt the plastic post.
Both sides of wife's X had the problem but one side stopped working at about 112,000 miles. When I fixed the non working side I first checked the other side of her car and it was 95% as bad as the first side. I repaired that side and then of course checked my car.
My X had the entire tail lamp assemblies replaced with some made in 2009 which had the extra wiring internal shown in the pics above.
I thought I took a video of the before & after but can't seem to find it. I love the improvement. Before the fix it looked like a lamp was burned out every time the brakes were used because only half the red lights up bright.
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