On Jun 9, 8:32*pm, "Jon" wrote:
"Allodoxaphobia" wrote in message

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On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 12:12:12 -0400, Jon wrote:
The right directional signal on my girlfriend's car doesn't work.

As soon as the crackerjack mind-readers in sci.electronics.repair
devine the make and model of the car, they'll get right back to you.

I just bought 2 bulbs for a 1994 Mercury Marquis for $1.36 each. *I didn't
know if it was the back or the front, so I guessed and chose the rear. *Then
there were two bulbs. *I didn't know which one might be bad. *I had two new
bulbs so I put both of them in and they started blinking. *So I guess I
solved the problem. *I put everything back together, tested it again and it
worked ok.

Aha!

Knowing what the old bulbs were would be instructive, assuming that
they had been lighting up, because we could compare their rated
current draw to that of the proper bulbs. (Assuming the car is indeed
a Mercury Marquis.)