The LEAD-SA crowd, in their infinite wisdom want you to drive with your headlights on during the day.
Unfortunately, none of those very clever peoples actually considered that maybe, just maybe cars have headlamps, for a purpose, and that is, for use at night.

A picture paints a thousand words, so apt in this case...


As you can see folks, the glass melted a nice bubble, and since this is likely borosilicate glass, this lamp must have been sitting at over 900 degrees centigrade.

My theory is insufficient cooling, because the car was driven on a typical stinking hot Gauteng day, with the headlights on, a-la LEAD SA.

And this is NOT covered by your motor plan. The bulb costs R170 + R410 labour, which you have to pay out of your own pocket, every 3 months.

LEAD-SA, not the brightest crayons in the box I am afraid...

Speaking under correction here, but I think they got the idea from countries like Norway & Sweden where everybody drives with their lights on all day & night, all year long. In the winter there's hardly any daylight and in summer it's minimal. So it makes sense there.
The big difference is that even in summer in those countries, the temperatures are very low to say the least. In Africa it's obviously a bit of a different story.
Another example of trying / importing an idea that works in certain European countries, but can't work in Africa...

I'm shocked at the costs of the headlamps and the labour though. What kind of car is it Jason?
I recently had to replace a single headlamp bulb on my admittedly fairly old Opel (you've seen it), but that cost me about R40 or R60 bucks.
Installing it was a cinch and I did it myself in under 10 minutes. I know some of the latest model cars have very limited space to work under the hood, but surely one can get a hand in there to undo and pop in a new light bulb?

The bulbs, good ones, cost as much as R140, the cheap wing-wong ones cost around R30.
The one headlight is completely boxed in so it cost me 3 hours to remove the entire front bumper of the car to get the headlamp out.
With every new Corsa model GM will show us how much more crap they can squash into the front of the car. I have small hands and there's no ways you can even get the back cover of the headlamp off, to get the bulb out.

Opel dealership bulbs? For me there is no difference in the grey cloned parts unless it comes to the engine or gearbox. Normally their spares are about 4-10x thw price of grey import.
On an Opel you should be able to readily access the rear of the headlamps without removing anything (don't know how the situation is on the latest models thouh...)

OK I understand then... Fuckup of note with the latest gen cars...

Call me cynical, but I've also always seen the headlight initiative as a pretty crap idea that seems to serve little purpose other than making a minority feel chuffed about themselves for doing "their part" to promote awareness about Lead SA, because they couldn't be arsed to do anything else to contribute a significant change.

Never considered the potential damage - that picture really does say it all!