Remember to check the work light Z owners

[415s30]

So I almost killed the battery, I have been driving the Z a lot for the past couple days. I must have accidentally flipped the switch on the Z's work light because it was on, I am lucky I opened the hood after the drive I took. They did the AC on the Mercedes already and left the keys in it so I took my wife to get it, we walked Sylvie a little and then I took a curvy mountain road home while my wife took a calm road. I was putting the hood ornament back on yesterday and I did have to go to both sides of the hood (which flips forward) so I was right there and could have flipped the switch I guess.

Needless Z pics

Birb we saw. Anyway I could have done without more car drama.

[facw]

@415s30 That's an interesting feature...

Presumably you could replace the bulb with an LED that would take forever to drain the battery?

[davesaddiction]

@415s30

Every Z pic is needed (and welcome).

[415s30]

@facw Maybe, I'm not sure what bulb it is but there could be an LED equivalent.

[PowderHound]

@415s30 OG factory under glow

[415s30]

@PowderHound It's not much but if you had no other light it could be useful. I might look into an LED that would work.

[Ad absurdum per aspera]

@facw Indeed, like the mystery sorta parking light switch on the steering column of my Forester, or the ability of my Antichrysler to keep the back-seat makeup mirrors on when the car was turned off.

My betters say this bulb is a BA9S, and LED replacements for it are readily available at various luminosities and price points.

That said, even the lower power consumption of an LED bulb can run down the battery of a relatively seldom used hobby car. Bit surprised they didn't include a position sensitive switch of some kind in this surprisingly intricate little assembly as long as they were at it...

[Highlander]

@PowderHound @415s30 now I know how to add under glow to my Z.

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[Highlander]

@415s30 that poor light looks beat. You should get a new/refurbished one.

https://s30garage.com/

[Nauraushaun]

black-crowned night heron

[415s30]

@Highlander Perhaps one day, someday we'll pull the engine and paint in there plus change all the rubber bits... and the light.

[415s30]

@Nauraushaun Oh yeah, I was going to look it up on our folding Marin bird spotting guide. Thanks

[beefchips]

@Nauraushaun said in Remember to check the work light Z owners:

black-crowned night heron

double-chin chonk heron

[save_the_milanos]

@415s30 this reminds me, I’ve never actually bothered to figure out how one would turn on the under hood work light on my Milanos. Certainly all of my cars have dead bulbs, but I’ve never noticed a switch for them even if they weren’t

[Nauraushaun]

@beefchips gosh you're right. I figured he was hiding a long slender neck like our white faced heron (pictured in both modes). But it looks like that's not the case and he's just a chonk

[WBizarre]

@facw said in Remember to check the work light Z owners:

That's an interesting feature...

@415s30 Watch out!

[415s30]

@Highlander I'll probably refurbish the original one if we redid the whole engine bay. I found 3D printed lenses.

[415s30]

@WBizarre It has a cord wound inside, it's a flashlight powered by the car.

[M.T. Blake]

@415s30 That thing is on a reel or long cord, right? I believe the crappy '76 we have had that same light.

[415s30]

@M-T-Blake Yeah it's wound around inside. I never use it, I think I took it al out once. It reaches around in the bay.

[M.T. Blake]

@415s30 Cars never should have gone away from genius things like that. An under hood-mounted light only does so much... or now, nothing.

[415s30]

@M-T-Blake Well you can't fix an EV by the side of the road and lots of cars have a plastic cover over the engine and so much crap you need a laptop just to diagnose it.

[415s30]

@Nauraushaun I call him no neck, they should have named them after Takarafuji, a long time sumo rikishi that also has no neck.