Brake And Tail Lights

[Guest bigrabdl]

Okay need some help with this strange one . My front nearside side light has stopped working but when I press the brakes the offside front side light works with my brake lights , Oh and it gets better . When I switch on my lights at night my brake lights stay on including the high level one , along with my normal tail lights . Any help please .

[chromedome]

Check the brake light bulbs as they are double filament.

 

Check carefully to see if one filament has have blown and then bridged across to the other filament. This can cause the lighting and brake light circuits to work together at the same time.

 

I had this on a Honda once, put the lights on and the brake lights came on as well. With the lights off, every time I operated the brakes all the lights would come on.

[Guest bigrabdl]

My brake lights and my tail lights are seperate and both are single filament . Have replaced them already to no avail .

[Topbloke]

sounds like a bad earth, but where !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HJT]

Could be the wiring loom breaking down where it enters the tailgate (common fault, opening and closing the tailgate damages the wires) and shorting across the the wires, causing the problems you describe.

 

Howard

[chromedome]

My brake lights and my tail lights are seperate and both are single filament . Have replaced them already to no avail .

Thats odd. My side lights are both single and double filament (4 bulbs). Check the contacts in the larger bulb holder to see if there are two. If there are it should be a double filament.

[chromedome]

More on this...............if a single element bulb was fitted in error it would bridge the two contacts giving you your symptoms.

[Guest stevebm1]

sounds like the wrong bulbs to me!

[chromedome]

bigrabdl, did you fix the problem with your lights?

 

It's nice to know the fix for future reference on the forum.