Fluid levels BH tail lights...

[Bugle]

So leaky tail lights are a BH \'thing\'?

A friend has one and asked the question, didn\'t think much of it until I was behind one last night with water sloshing around in both tail light assemblies (lights seemed to be going fine though)

So how does it get in and how does one fix it?

[DacerX]

Nar thats just headlight fluid all cars have it, can be purchased at any repco, just ask them

[Joker]

lol C heeky

remove em, make a drain hole in the back somewhere nice, job done

[Bugle]

 dacerx said:

Nar thats just headlight fluid all cars have it, can be purchased at any repco, just ask them

Comes with a free long wait?

[Jesus]

On mine, theres a small drain slot in the middle of the garnish where water thats run off the rear screen would normally go behind the light and pop out somewhere above the number plate. On mine, the water pools at that slot and leaks into the light.

I fixed mine by removing the whole thing and running a bead of sealant all along the top edge with extra focus in the centre.

Pretty sure georges one leaked too and we fixed it the same way....oh and mike youngs one.

[neodowd]

^^+1 bead of silicone sealant along top of garnish stops water getting into tail light.

[subieboy]

Do a quick search, however the basic process

remove the garnish

drain water

clean properly, then clean the balck trim strip and the garnish and the body with nailpolish remover

use windscreen sealant and run a bead of this along both ends of the black trim strip

put it back together

it will not leak again if done right

[duddley]

Sealed mine up again a few weeks back and its keeping 95% of the water out

[Bugle]

Good stuff, thanks all!

[sobanoodle]

http://www.clubsub.org.nz/forum/index.php/topic,374.0.html

[RexGT]

Also dont forget to clean the lampholders, had a few issues with what I thought were blown bulbs were actually bad contacts from the moisture. Just sayin