You should always ensure that your vehicle’s lights and globes are functioning correctly and replace them if necessary. In fact, in Australia, it’s mandatory that all of your lights are in good working order for your vehicle to be roadworthy.

So, how can you ensure that your vehicle’s lights are in good condition and functioning as they should? The first step is to do regular checks to make sure that you don’t have any blown globes.

How to Check if your Lights are Functioning Correctly

In general, you want to wait until it’s dark to make sure that your lights are functioning correctly. This will make it far easier to see whether the lights are on or not.

You can easily check how your headlights and front lights are working by parking in front of a glass window such as a closed shopfront. This will allow you to see the reflection of the front of your vehicle and you can test all of your lights one by one from inside the car.

It goes without saying, that you want to ensure that the shop is closed and there’s no one inside who might be blinded, especially if you’re testing your high beams.

To test your brake lights, indicators, and other rear lights, you might need the assistance of another person in your household or a close friend. Have someone stand behind the car to let you know if the lights are working as you test them one by one.

Clean your Lights Effectively

While you might clean the outside of your head and tail lights when you wash the car, not many people think to clean the insides as well. You see, moisture can gather inside the covers and this can reduce the effectiveness of the lights.

Therefore, you want to make a regular practice of removing both the head and tail light covers and cleaning the insides of your lights. Of course, a good time to do this is when you need to replace one or more globes.

Make Sure that you Replace any Blown Globes with High-Quality Ones

If you do find that one or more of your globes have blown or are dim and not as bright as they should be, make sure that you replace them immediately. 

It’s also important to replace any globes in pairs. So, if one of your tail light globes is blown or dim, make sure that you replace the globes in both of your tail lights. Ensure that you replace them with high-quality brands such as Narva or Osram.

At this stage, you might even decide that you want to update your halogen lights to LED ones. LED globes are highly efficient, put less pressure on your battery and give a far better illumination at night.

Consider brands such as Autolamps LED or Narva which also have LED conversion kits to make the job nice and easy.

In Summary

Regularly maintaining your vehicle’s lights and globes is important to keep your car in a roadworthy condition and to ensure that you have excellent vision when driving at night.