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Subject: [TR] a bulb not doing anything, not TR
From: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:11:42 -0400 (EDT)
Re a 2003 Dodge Caravan, not a Triumph.

Our 2003 Caravan has a non-functional right front parking light.  It is not the 
bulb; I checked it, even swapped it with the left front bulb.  It is not a 
fuse; they all appear good, and the right rear is working.  (The fuse markings 
are ambiguous but appear to say that both RF and RR bulbs are wired together.)  
It does not appear to be a relay; I re-seated them all anyway.  The turn 
signals work just fine.

I put a voltmeter on the wires, saw no voltage, but may have been thwarted by 
the difficulty of getting a good ground through paint or surface corrosion 
everywhere.  I disconnected, checked the voltage on, and re-seated the plug 
going to the bulb holder; still saw nothing.

The most likely cause would appear to be a corroded connector somewhere out of 
sight in the line going to that bulb only.

Can any of you suggest which part of the dashboard I should disassemble to find 
it?  The car was inspected in August, so that hurdle won't come around again 
for a while.  But on the other hand, it is still a non-functional bulb that I 
would like to fix and may be required legally to fix, inspection or no.

In the meantime, the weather is getting cold.

Tanks,
Jim Muller
'80 Spitfire
'70 GT6+
'03 Caravan
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