Hey All - Was headed home tonight and a cager pulled up next to me and told me my tail light and running light were out. Sure enough they both are.


Opened up the tail light and the bulb had loosened itself out a bit. As I was pushing it back in everything came on and worked fine.

Is there a way to ensure a hold on this bulb so this doesnt happen again? 9pm pitch black at night on the Ortega with no brake lights is asking for trouble.

Thank you all in advance!

 

This is a flat push in bulb or a round push&turn bulb?

 

Its the flat one. Now that I have replaced it however, the brake light and tail light are stuck on and I cannot figure it out its driving me nuts!

 

Are you sure it's the correct bulb #?, there may be more than one bulb # that fits the socket but might not work properly, also the bulb might go in in more than one way.
Your taillight should always be on so it's really just the brake light filliment that is stuck on, that could be caused by either the front or rear brake light switch, a fault in the wiring or a fault in the bulb/socket. Based on how the problem started I'd guess that either it's a bad bulb or not the correct bulb, if it wasn't the correct bulb it might be that it damaged the socket when you put it in.

 

Yeah when I replaced the bulb it did work for a few minutes before the break light was stuck on. When I put the stock bulb back in I get the same thing - break light stuck on.

 

Here is the bulb I went with any thoughts?


Bulb with Packaging



Model # on bulb

 

You don't list the year of your bike so I can't look it up but is that the bulb # that is spec'd for your bike?
It is a double filament bulb so the socket will be directional meaning it can only properly be inserted one way, if it got jammed in the wrong way it may have damaged the socket.

 

its an 05xl883l to be honest the guy at autozone pulled the dead one out and put the new one in - I brought the socket and wiring. I'm hoping he didn't **** it up but at least that'd be an easy fix

 

Its the weirdest thing - I was thinking maybe itd be the front brake switch so I manually pushed the switch in, and when I do - I lose BOTH the running light and the brake. But when holding it in, if i engage the foot brake, I get the brake light to flash. Im so confused !

 

So here is the socket...thinking this could be a good place to start!