430 Check your PB Engineering Tail Lights Now!

Went to go remove my PB Engineering lights to replace them with my new Morimotos. I already had a buyer lined up for my old lights so I was ready to ship them as soon as they were out. To my surprise, they had bubbles in the chrome finish under the lens! Three of the four were bad. I swear they looked perfect just last week and now they’re not salable.

I’ve fired off an email to Byron to see about getting them replaced under warranty. I’ll report back on the process.

Also, I’m pretty confident this happened due to heat in the engine bay. I drive my car weekly so some of you may not be that far behind me. If you haven’t yet, I’d recommend putting some extra heat protection between your lights and the engine bay if you plan on keeping these.

 

Oddly enough, that spot on top of the light was the worst. Maybe sunlight contributing? The others were off to the side though.

 

I shot an email out to Byron on Thursday night. No response yet but we’ll see. I may try to reach him through one of the eBay vendors if he doesn’t respond.

 

I don’t think so. Looking at the morimoto construction the inside is a painted silver in a two part housing similar to OEM. The PB lights are a single housing (much cleaner with no seam) but they went with a reflective insert in the body. That reflective layer is what’s bubbling likely because it’s some type of film that was adhered versus a painted finish.

 

Thanks for the tips. I just bought some aluminum heat shielding and will try making something a bit more robust behind these.

 

Haven't received a response from Byron as of yet. I fired off another email to him and also contacted one of the eBay sellers. I don't think I'll have much traction from them though. It was odd because one of the eBay sellers listing these is called "R Engineering." but from Byron's posts here, it's evident the logo is PB Engineering. Tossing that up to China being China. Not sure what everyone else had in their paypal sale, but Byron specifically spelled out a one year warranty for me. I have until July 7th to make some type of claim through paypal apparently.

 

I sent the second email today while it was the middle of the night in China. I’ll give him at least a full day. The eBay seller asked if I bought the lights from him and said nothing after I said “no.” The eBay ad does mention f chat though so maybe it was the original group buy contact

 

I’ve put maybe 500-600 miles so far since I’ve had them. I’m not sure but I think what did them in was a particularly bad bout of traffic I was in where I was going almost nowhere for 30min. I washed the car the week before that and the bubbling definitely wasn’t there.

 

Claim filed today. Let's see where this goes.

 

Quick update. The eBay reseller reached out to Byron for me and I was finally able to get in touch with him. He said my emails ended up in spam.
Either way, they have arranged for me to ship my lights to the eBay seller in the US and they will be shipping me a new set in return.