that would be helpful

they were a gift, but i believe they got them from AM

 

I just got mine from Americanmuscle today. From their website it appears I was buying the CDC's. The install manual .pdf file there is for CDC, the link to the lights says CDC dyanmite sticks and the graphic mustang image is the same one at CDC website. They arrived today and were the WebElectric Brand! And NO, webelectric does NOT make them for CDC. I phoned CDC and they told me webelectric are not the same as theirs. I got an RMA and sent them back at a $9.00 shipping charge at UPS. I will order my CDC's elsewhere.

 

I've had my sequentials in for over a year with no issues.

 

I had to replace the middle bulb on both taillights. I got the bulb from the Ford dealer. $3.50

 

i just put my WebElectric sequentials in today and had the outermost bulb on the left side burn out. do i really have to replace all 6 bulbs to prevent this from happening to the rest in such a short time?

i was extremely careful when handing the bulbs during the harness swap. is this a major recurring problem?

 

I'm not sure where all this info is coming from about the sequentials being the root cause of burned out bulbs. I see S197s all over the place with burned out center bulbs and sometimes outer ones and they don't have the sequential kit. I've been running the same webelectrics for 3.5 years in 2 different S197s with zero bulb issues. I'm guessing this is just your standard MTBF issue with light bulbs.

There's tons of misinformation on the internet.

NEWS FLASH. INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS WILL BURN OUT! FILM AT 11!

Sometimes things are just coincidental. Now, that being said, I can't disprove the info about one switching type being different from the others and cold bulbs getting a hot charge and blowing. But all of these things are built to certain tolerances and none of them will be the same. I run my lights on all the time. So I almost never have "cold bulbs" receiving a charge. Just a habit I've been in since I started driving so many moons ago. Get in, start car, seat belt on, lights on, brakes on, release parking brake, look around, gear up, go.

If the upper statement is true about the charge voltage blowing bulbs. Maybe my routine has saved me from constantly replacing bulbs. I posit that its more of a bad bulb than your sequentials trashing bulbs. Now if it happened every week, either you have a bad unit and I would test it with a multimeter, OR you're driving over very bumpy roads and a bulb is bound to fail now and again.

I wouldn't just run around ranting about crappy 3rd party gear until you test it and have proof that it is indeed overvolting on you. I would love to see some LED mods since they are brighter and do last longer than incandescents. Unfortunately, most of them are weirdo replacments with an LED array that kinda looks like junk. How hard could it be to manufacture a large superbright white LED that plugs into your standard harness? Other than most LED tech being somewhat unidirectional.

Whoops. I've gone off on a tangent again... Back to my sunday detailing and beer.

(waiting for the wax to dry and drinking beer)

 

Wow... ok. so like 8 seconds after my above post i found this site.

http://jamstrait.com/

Exactly what I was talking about.

 

pardon me, boss. ive had my car for all of about 6 weeks. it was a new 2008 off the lot. 40 miles on the odometer. if the bulb was burned out, there had better be a better explanation than "it's incandescent."

 

Only problem I could see is that, since the light closest to the center burns longer than the other two and the center burns longer that the outer, the bulbs just have uneven use and some will burn out quicker than the others.

 

Is this the first time you've ever seen a bad light bulb in your entire life? They burn out. Could be a multitude of issues. Rattled at the factory, bounced around when doing the sequential install, sun spots, global warming, bad flux capacitor, who knows. Unless the same bulb or multiple ones constantly blow out over time it is probably just a random occurrence and you got hit with something on the short end of the MTBF.

New off the lot doesn't mean that Ford made the bulb on-site the day it was put in, or that the dealership opened up a shiny new package of bulbs with a 7 year warranty on them and put them in 8 seconds before you showed up with the gumption to buy.

Replace it and move on. Unless there are repeated faults I'd chalk it up to a bad bulb and forget about it.