Q: led bumper lights

asked by on February 28, 2017

i recently purchased some led bumper lights, and it has a strip with about 9 led lights in it and the same 3 lights keep burning out, and its only on the drivers side light and not the passenger. this is my second replacement already, just wondering why this is happening or if it was just a fluke that i got 2 bad headlights.

My car has 132000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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