vn tail lights fillin up with water..

[OFFiTS]

hey guys

I dunno if everyones noticed but the tail lights on VNs seem to fill up with water heaps easy, making my globes rust n stuff, has anyone come up with a quick and easy way to stop this, i'm considering puttin drain holes in, which would be the best way, but I just wanna hear some other ideas??

[1vngal]

I've got the same problem with mine. I only have the top two tail/brake lights out of four!!! Hopefully I'll have my boot spoiler light working within the next half hour!

Try running some silicone along the top of the taillight. A few people I know of had theirs leaking down through the top.

Can't hurt to try right??

[mouce]

The quickest and easiest way it to undo the nuts holding the light assembly in place, and remove the tail lights. Once they are out, run a bead of silicone sealant around where the lens joins onto the body of the light assembly. Then run a bead of silicone around where the light assembly has the original crappy foam seal (otherwise water will piss into your boot). Before the silicone goes 'hard', bolt it back onto the body. This stops the water getting into the lights in the first place.

Drilling drain holes in the bottom will work too, but it's much better to stop the water getting in in the first place.

How many other leaks have you got?

*edit*: Beaten by a minute. Great minds think alike.

[1vngal]

Gotta agree on the great minds part!!!

[OFFiTS]

thanks 1vngal, its the only leak i got, it just annoys me!! lol

I mite try the silicone trick!!!

[3.8L of executive power!!]

now, yes you will have to seal behind the tail lights but that wont stop much for sum people, i had to seal inbetween the colored lenses of the lamp, because it used to come down the back of the boot flow over the red lense then seep inbetween the red lense and the orange indicator lense, so for this i used winscreen sealand and did all these gaps, even around the reflectors and now i have all four brake lights working well which is a rare sight for vn/vp's these days

[OFFiTS]

it is pretty rare to see all lights working on a VN!!!

[1vngal]

seal inbetween the colored lenses of the lamp, because it used to come down the back of the boot flow over the red lense then seep inbetween the red lense and the orange indicator lense

I've come across this before, but I never known anyone to actually have to do it. Like i said, just a line of silicone along the top fixed it. I have to do mine, I have been meaning to for sometime now, as my taillights are up sh*t creek. I actually have to replace the bottom globe holders on both sides. I tried sanding them out, as i did with one of the top ones, but the bottom ones are too far gone.

Plus my boot smells like a wet dog. It's so foul.

[3.8L of executive power!!]

yeah i think its funny when i see a reallllly nice vn/vp ss and then it stops and you see only two top brake lights work makes me laugh,
just do every join and gap in the lenses and joins and you should be fine

[1vngal]

Wouldn't that take ages?

[3.8L of executive power!!]

nah because with windscreen sealant its relly easy to work with, you can mess it around and spill it but you can wipe it up like water untill after 20 mins, si i just put some sealant on a paper towl and wiped it into the gaps,

[1vngal]

Do you have to remove the taillight first?

[3.8L of executive power!!]

to seal behind the tail lights i removed the tail lights and that wasnt hard sealed that up, the sealed the gap between the body of da car and the tail lights and then did the lenses, sounds like heaps of work but its not really and its worth it because otherwise you short circuit the electrics rust out the globes and then it leaks into your boot and most vn owners know what that means

[NORTI]

I drilled holes the sides of the lights on an angle kinda hard to explain really.... where each "level" is... then replaced then & sealed the lot with sealant. Never leaked again & always had all tail lights & brake lights workin after that



D.

[gocommygo]

i just fixed this problem, get some silicone and put in the gap between the lights and the body and wipe excess off and make sure theres no holes in it, works a treat

[Ygoford]

what about when u want to replace the light covers ?? then there stuck on ther e? but i agree with the hole thing aswell u dun want it in the first place hmm were in a ****t situation i think its time to investergate , maybe there is something to stop it ? cause i have just noticed thisproblem with mine but its only on the side that i dented in my first days of driving the other side doesnt do it and the boot gap is bigger now so maybe its not surpose to do it to start with we all just got seal leacks or something ?

[mouce]

Thirty seconds with a stanley knife and you can get the lens off, it isn't hard. That's why you're using silicone and not superglue.