Headlight Q. Bulb died, bad wiring? I dunno.

[Hatch_Of_Doom]

Went to a friend's Thursday night from work and he let me know my passenger side headlight was out, and thar she blows it is. My question is, leaving his house that night, when the car was in 2nd at around 4000 rpm until it shifted into 3rd, the other headlight came on. I was like WTF?

Did it again, nothing. Tried to repeat the process anyway possible, nothing. So now it's just flat out dead.

Was that last flicker the bulb dying, or does that mean a wire is messed up somewhere or something?

I don't want to waste money on bulbs if something came loose, but I'm doubting that's what happened.

 

[Bobo_686]

check the ground right near the fender side, undo it and sand down the area,and rescrew it into the fender, thatll elimate the bad ground, just work back from there, you might have a splice or a short

 

[[civic]]

Could be that the filament is about to break loose. There is just enough of a gap to cut the light and just about any jolt will make the filament connect to turn on. I used to hit my headlight when my bulb went out and it turns back on. A few days later, it finally went out. Its usually the bulb in this case.

Get some cheap sylvania bulbs from kragen to test them out. You can always return them.

 

[Hatch_Of_Doom]

I think I'm about to buy Polarg Xtreme Yellow's anyway.