Friday, December 19, 2008

Are Turn Signal Light Bulbs One Size Fits All?

I hate shopping for something that I know absolutely nothing about. Take my car, for instance. I really don't know anything about it part-wise. I want to know. I have even asked my father to show me how to do the basic things like change a tire, but his mumbled response was something along the lines of, "You're not strong enough to lift a tire." Says who? Honestly, I think he's just a little sexist and thinks that I can't do those things because I'm a girl. Whatever. The truth of the matter is because I am a girl, I can read directions, and I can take my time, two things that my father seems incapable of doing. As such, I can probably do those things better than him, should I ever learn how.

I found in the book to my Camaro the number for the turn signal bulb, but I'm just wondering if I really need that number. For a bulb so small, shouldn't it be more of a one size fits all type of thing? It's not like the headlights that have to fit in a certain shaped space (which I replaced on my own, by the way, with no input from the male species). From what I can tell, the turn signal bulb just goes behind the plastic lens. I know that the last time it went out, the tire place had a replacement bulb in stock, and they rarely have '95 Camaro parts in stock. I could take the Redneck Mobile back there, but I really don't want to have the labor costs of replacing a bulb. It's a bulb. How hard can it be to turn it?

I know. I know. Cue the dumb lawyer joke about how many lawyers it takes to screw in a light bulb.

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