F430 tail light replacement problems

Did you use the same bulbs and bulb holder from your old tail lights?
If i remember correctly, I don't recall the outer lights having the backup (middle) bulb in it. I think that the middle bulb should be on the inner lights only.
Looks like you might have the wrong bulbs in the bulb holder, or that the bulb holder is the wrong one. I will have to go home later and verify though.
The bulb holder and the bulbs are different from inner to outer lights. I think that the inner lights are single filaments and have the reverse lights, while the outer lights are double filaments and do NOT have backup lights (small middle bulb). But i will need to verify later which is which.

 

The little bulb is the turn signal.....

 

For some reason from my iPad it only allows to upload one image at a time. But they are different and have different numbers on them.
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Inner light
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Outer light
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Outer light bulbs has double filaments. Notice the two poles in the light bulbs. And the bulb holder says "p21/5w".
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What is it you dont understand?

The outer bulbs ''with two poles'' as you describe it are double action bulbs. 5w tail lights and 21w brake lights........

 

Inner lights have single filament and has "p21w" and "h21w".
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Because they are not double action.................

 

The little bulb is the revers light as that one goes in the middle where the clear lens is in the middle.
The double filament bulb is your brake/turn signal bulb.
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I suppose the US cars are slightly different than the original cars. On the original Ferrari F430 as intended by the factory the little bulb on the outer lights is the turn signal. The little bulb on the inner lights is the reversing light. This might vary depending on the local laws of the country of the car is imported into.

 

I think so, in to iced that all my bulbs are white and US laws require that the turn lights be yellow or red. So I think that US is slightly different. I did read somewhere that non-US lights in the rear all four light up. But for US, only the outer lights light up. I think someone sells a conversion for all four lights to light up.

 

Above should read ' I noticed'.

 

Putting the light back in and I do notice that there are different numbers on the lights.
Here is what is on them, notice one is 80 and one is 82.
Inner light:
INT. DX USA
193180
28 24 02 04

Outer light:
INT. DX USA
193182
28 24 02 04

 

A problem similar to this happened on my car when I purchased it. When applying the brakes, the inner reverse light would come on and half the tail light would go out - only on one side. The dealer fixed it and said that there was some corrosion on the wires and caused a short, they claimed to replace a couple blown fuses and redid the wiring.

 

Peter was correct and identified an error in our catalog. The original parts catalogs from the F430 release had Inner/Outer (INT/EST) mixed up. Peter has already been sent a coupon code for use on his next purchase on anything at Ricambi America.

I greatly appreciate it when folks find these kinds of discrepancies in our catalog. It's really a challenge to keep everything straight when we're dealing with multiple data sources which occasionally conflict one another.

Again, thank you!

 

I am glad that I was able to help you sort this out with your light. I hope that you have resolved the issue.