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Adrian wrote:
Skipweasel gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

also I don't think anyone has mentioned that it is possible to force
a stop/tail bulb in the socket the "wrong" way around - thus making
the larger/brighter brake filament to work as tail light and vice
versa....

Many cars now use a variant which has the pins at 120° instead of 180°.

That's purely to stop people fitting "clear" bulbs (180deg pins) in a
car that requires coloured (120deg pins), though. Not seen it on dual-
filaments (one pin's higher than the other), but on 21w orange-tinted
indicators.

A neighbour had a Renault that used what looked like normal 5 watt tail
light bulbs, but with funny pins. Halfords didn't sell them. Perhaps a way
of forcing you to pay inflated main dealer prices.

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