Just got an 09 TE310 and the brake light does not get any brighter once i depress either brake, it just stays at a constant brightness (does not seem bright enough to be stuck at the "brake on" level. Someone mentioned that this could be the second filament inside the light. How do i check for this/ where would i find a new one? thanks
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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
2009 TE310 Brake Light
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Trenchcoat85
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well, pull the bulb- it's probably an 1157 (the most common bulb in the US for the last 50 years). Hard to tell from the shop manual, and the parts manual says Part #8A0018246 is $12.25 (!) which may indicate it's something else (an 1157 should be about $2-$3). Consider a LED equivalent also.
Dual filament bulbs can be sometimes visually inspected to determine that one of the filaments is broken.
Regardless, take it to an automotive store (or most convenience stores) and get a new one.
Dual filament bulbs can be sometimes visually inspected to determine that one of the filaments is broken.
Regardless, take it to an automotive store (or most convenience stores) and get a new one.