Cleaning up bits to put my car back together and noticed one of the red rear lenses is bulbous where the reflector is in the middle. I haven't seen on like that before, any ideas?
Rohan
Rohan
rear light difference
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stock tail light bulb replaced with one that created more heat than the OEM and caused it to deform?
jmackro
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That would be my guess. How symmetrical is the bulge? I.e., does it look "factory made"?
The Hella part number visible in the photo (SRBBL48ZR) matches the # on my own coupe's lens. And mine doesn't have a bulge. If there was a part with a different shape, it would probably have its own part number.
That s what I was thinking but it is very uniform. I guess it would be though I didn't think it would rise and not crack!? I only thought it strange as I was going to swap the lens and the numbers are different on that one although the 'bubble' one and it's sister lens are identical in part numbers.
Many years ago I had to replace my left and right front grilles because the heat generated from the back housing on my fog lights deformed the horizontal slats.