Electrical headlight problem need help ASAP!!

[95toyotacamry]

So i went and bought some brighter bulbs on ebay , put em on my 95 camry. The bulbs sort of melted the plug for the low beams. I replaced the plug,and just used the regular bulbs, now the bulbs keep on burning out. Any one has the slightest idea what the problem might be? This is driving me nuts, because i have to carry extras around.

[Mike Gerber]

Are you touching the glass portion of the bulbs when you are replacing them? If you are, this is the reason for them burning out so quickly. You have oils on your skin which are being transferred to the bulbs. When the bulbs are lit with this oil on them, it greatly increases the bulb temperature and burns them out prematurely. If you do touch the glass portion of the bulb when installing it, wipe it off with alcohol and then reinsert it.

Mike

[95toyotacamry]

Originally Posted by Mike Gerber

Are you touching the glass portion of the bulbs when you are replacing them? If you are, this is the reason for them burning out so quickly. You have oils on your skin which are being transferred to the bulbs. When the bulbs are lit with this oil on them, it greatly increases the bulb temperature and burns them out prematurely. If you do touch the glass portion of the bulb when installing it, wipe it off with alcohol and then reinsert it.

Mike

That sort of makes sense and i do it, but it still burn out quick. Any other suggestions as it what it might be. Because b4 i bought the ebay ones they would last a long long time, and now few weeks. I think the bulbs i bought on ebay were drawing too much current or something. Is there something i could of damaged that regulates the current going to the bulbs??? (( just an idea))

[Creeps228]

in order for the bulbs to blow so fast is that there is alot of current flow through the filament inside the bulb; the filament cant seem to take the flow through it and burns out. I'd check from your wires back. Maybe the part that you replaced might have done damage to something else in the line going to the headlights. But something happened, because once you changed to the ebay bulbs your got alot of current running through the wires that the wires got hot enough to melt through the surrounding of it...jus my $.02

[new echo owner]

Did they just burnt out or the glass busted too? How do the bulbs look like? Blistered?

N.E.O.

[95toyotacamry]

Originally Posted by new echo owner

Did they just burnt out or the glass busted too? How do the bulbs look like? Blistered?

N.E.O.

It was the right hand side low beam plug which got sort of melted/popped. The bulb was just there burned. The glass of the bulb did not break.

[new echo owner]

Make sure all the connections are clean and tight, and don't touch the glass end of the bulb when you install it. Check the grounds too.

The circuit diagram for the headlight is pretty straight forward, and nothing in between that would really affect the current, would probably blow the fuses first. What kind of bulbs did you put back on the car?

N.E.O.

[95toyotacamry]

Originally Posted by new echo owner

Make sure all the connections are clean and tight, and don't touch the glass end of the bulb when you install it. Check the grounds too.

The circuit diagram for the headlight is pretty straight forward, and nothing in between that would really affect the current, would probably blow the fuses first. What kind of bulbs did you put back on the car?

N.E.O.

I put back the regular ones. So you think i just blew a fuse? So that would mean that the current is just going straight to the bulbs then. Or does it work like that?

[new echo owner]

What I had meant to say was the way that the circuit is setup, if there is anything that would require enough current to burnt out the bulbs, it probably would have blew out the fuses first. Sorry about I way I had worded it previously.

One thing you want to make sure is that all the connection are clean and tight. If you had replaced the head light socket, I hope you had soldered the wires back together and not just taped together, poor connection can cause high resistance.

N.E.O.