Melted Rear Fog Lamp Clusters!

[Sledge]

Hello there,

 

proud owner of a C5 Tourer (59 plate). It has more ups than downs and has been very reliable. Picked it up from its interim level 1 service and MOT. It appears that the rear fog lamp clusters had melted and were duly replaced. I phoned the guy at the services dept and expressed my concerns as to why this could have happened...having NEVER used the fog lights since i have had the vehicle. This coupled with the reverse lights not working did not make any sense.

I have searched through these forums to no avail and wondered if it is just one of them things or are my concerns justified.

 

Any help in this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you

[paul.h]

Welcome to the forum.

Maybe the earth connection is not good enough or there was corrosion on the electrical part of the clusters or the electrical connectors need cleaning so that the normal use of other lights was causing hot spots or the other lights are having to earth via the fog lights. If not investigated and sorted it needs doing since it may happen again. If you can, get the old lights back for a check of their condition.

 

I have moved your post into a subforum since outside of one they are not visible after a few days and can become lost.

[paul.h]

Just checked and the bulbs maybe H21W halogen ones which probably get very hot so it may be worth checking the correct ones have been fitted.

[coastline taxis]

paul got it right youve had the wrong watage bulbs in