Change the Light Bulb Grease within 20 years

[jok]

Last weekend before a taking the grandkids and their friends to Cedar Point Amusement Park "HalloWeeks" I was checking everything over and noticed that my Hazard Lights would just glow when I first turned them on. After about 30 seconds all was well. I could not figure it out, but I assumed I had a ground problem somewhere.

The next day I was trying to determine where the problem was and eventually found one of the side lights was half full (or half empty) of water, partially covering the bulbs. I took the cover off, wiped things dry and sprayed everything with WD-40. I did the same with all the side lights. Everything seemed good. The next day I put the hazard lights on for about 30 minutes and noticed it would occasionally stop flashing, then glow, then go out and then start flashing again. I took the covers off again and thought that maybe the grease that was around the bulb socket was contaminated with too much water, allowing them to ground out. I removed all the bulbs, wiped all the grease off and re-sprayed with WD-40. It seems to be okay.

So I guess it was time to re-grease the bulb sockets on my 19 year old bus. That's the story I'm sticking with.

Anyone else have similar electrical water gremlins?

John

[belfert]

The light sockets on my lights in the front and rear were all corroded.  The lights would randomly fail and removing and reinserting them would fix for a while.  I didn't see any water, but corrosion was still present.

I finally got fed up with the lights and installed all new LED lights front and rear.  I covered over the old lights.  I keep meaning to take a picture of the LED lighting to post here, but it never gets done.