Failure of NCT on the colour of my indicator bulbs

Crimsonforce

so had it this morning and the tester said it failed because the bulbs were not amber enough? I asked him how he came to that conclusion. how could he determine that the indicator lights were not orange enough. They looked orange to me

fair enough i went and bought new bulbs and replaced them, but has anyone ever heard of this stuff before.

CJhaughey

Crimsonforce wrote: »

so had it this morning and the tester said it failed because the bulbs were not amber enough? I asked him how he came to that conclusion. how could he determine that the indicator lights were not orange enough. They looked orange to me

fair enough i went and bought new bulbs and replaced them, but has anyone ever heard of this stuff before.

Yes, quite common. Lots of bulbs have an orange coating which cracks and peels after a while so they appear white instead of orange.
It is annoying though because its a purely subjective test.

jimgoose

Yes, it happens.

mickdw

Crimsonforce wrote: »

so had it this morning and the tester said it failed because the bulbs were not amber enough? I asked him how he came to that conclusion. how could he determine that the indicator lights were not orange enough. They looked orange to me

fair enough i went and bought new bulbs and replaced them, but has anyone ever heard of this stuff before.

Come on fair is fair. I'm willing to bet that when you removed the bulbs, a significant amount of the orange coating was gone meaning that the indicators were not very orange.
I figure if the indicators are in any way starting to turn white, the nct guy is within his rights to ask for new bulbs.

colm_mcm

Imagine how much worse they'd be by the next NCT.

Crimsonforce

id never heard of it before, failure on color of bulbs, but seems to be normal.you learn something new every day

colm_mcm

Back in the day you just had amber lenses and clear bulbs.

eviltwin

Happened to me years ago. I didn't change the bulbs. Car passed on the retest.

beauf

Look at it this way. It suggests the bulbs never needed changing. Some cars seem to always need bulbs changing. Others never need then.

jimmyw

colm_mcm wrote: »

Back in the day you just had amber lenses and clear bulbs.

That was a better way of doing it as it always falls off the bulb eventually.

beauf

Kinda went out of fashion.

Then again https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2803/4332670321_dd01e23b8a.jpg