This was my headlight bulb.<\/p>\n
Right before Shore Leave, my driver’s side low beams went out, and while I went to Advance Auto Parts on York Road to get a replacement, for deadlines and other reasons I didn’t install the bulb until the following Saturday, before I went to Camden Yards<\/a> and briefly saw my cousin Amber for the first time in two years.<\/p>\n As was well and good, once I had it installed properly. (You have to shove the housing into the socket and hope you made the connection between the socket and the plug inside. Plus, the release switches I needed to access are behind<\/i> the battery. Lovely.)<\/p>\n And then the monsoons came to the Bay.<\/p>\n I was driving home from work Monday night, and when I crossed the bridge across Lake Redman on 83 I had to go through water that may have been two feet deep. The bridge slopes, and water pools against the concrete median.<\/p>\n Afterwards, my driver’s side low beams were out.<\/p>\n Thursday after work, the first day without rain since Saturday, I stopped again at Advance Auto Parts and bought another bulb. My intention was to install it Friday morning before work, but yesterday was a day where I needed more coffee than usual and I had to get gas, so I decided it could wait until Saturday.<\/p>\n Why had the bulb gone out? My assumption was that it had shorted out due to the rain. Or maybe it had come loose.<\/p>\n Then I noticed blue “pebbles” inside the headlamp housing.<\/p>\n The bulb had exploded. Water had gotten inside, come in contact with the very hot bulb, and…<\/p>\n Poof!<\/p>\n That became my new working hypothesis, and I was mildly anxious to replace the bulb and see if I was correct <\/p>\n I was!<\/p>\n Everything is good now.<\/p>\n And let’s hope there’s no more monsoons. Or at least that the bridge across Lake Redman magically drains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was my headlight bulb. Right before Shore Leave, my driver’s side low beams went out, and while I went to Advance Auto Parts on York Road to get a replacement, for deadlines and other reasons I didn’t install the bulb until the following Saturday, before I went to Camden Yards and briefly saw myContinue reading “Fun With Headlight Bulbs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4126,938],"class_list":["post-31426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-volkswagen","tag-vw-beetle","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}