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Author:  meehal [ Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:17 pm ]
Post subject:  rear lights on round nose
i just replaced the back left hand side rear light base and when the lights are off the break lights work (left is dimmer than the right, is that normal?) when the lights are on they work but when the break is pressed the left hand one goes out?

i connected the old base and it does the same thing, i never noticed this before so it may have always been like this.

any ideas? the wiring looks ok, no damage to wires that i can see.

i tried swapping the bulb over, same result. and the indicators work fine.

thank you.
Author:  d1ck0 [ Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:22 pm ]
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Check your Earth's.
Author:  Mick [ Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:47 pm ]
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I reckon you have the wires mixed up on your brake light. Classic symptoms, commonly encountered
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There are two filaments in a brake light bulb. One for the brake and one for the park lights. They will be connected together at one end of the filament inside the bulb and this will be the ground point.

It sounds like you have mixed at least two of the three wires up.

1. Find the wire which goes to ground on the chassis.

2. Connect this and the park light wire (red) to any three wires (tails) coming out the back of the light fitting.

3. Swap tails until you illuminate the brightest filament of the dual filament bulb.

4. Keeping the negative on the current tail, swap the blue/red wire onto the last empty tail.

5.If it does not illuminate very brightly, go back to the last pair of tails, but swap the negative and the red.

5. Connect last wire to the third tail.

6. Drink coffee.
Author:  sgc [ Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:09 pm ]
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All of the above, and double, triple check your earths. My rear indicators on one side played up for years and I could never figure out the cause, turned out to be a really well hidden bad earth.
Author:  Morris 1100 [ Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:34 pm ]
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It is BRAKE not BREAK :shock:

Brake lights are the things on the back of the car that come on you you put your foot on the brake.

Break lights is what happens when your brakes don't work.
Author:  meehal [ Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:56 pm ]
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good call, i didn't see that.

thanks for your help everyone, i'll get onto this next weekend.
Author:  smillie [ Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:36 pm ]
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lh indicator: green red
rh indicator: green white
stop: green purple
tail: red
reverse lights (if fitted): green brown
Author:  mickmini [ Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:29 am ]
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Morris 1100 wrote:
It is break not BREAK :shock:

break lights are the things on the back of the car that come on you you put your foot on the break.

Break lights is what happens when your breaks don't work.


het is gebrakt :lol:
Author:  AEG163job [ Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:12 am ]
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mickmini wrote:
Morris 1100 wrote:
It is break not BREAK :shock:

break lights are the things on the back of the car that come on you you put your foot on the break.

Break lights is what happens when your breaks don't work.


het is gebrakt :lol:


breaking & entering?

LAPD scenario (highway patrol).
Driver, pulled over - "License & registration please"
"What's the problem officer?"
"Your driver's side tail light is broken (pointing to it with his baton)
"No, officer its working fine"
SMASH - "it's not now"
Author:  jess [ Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:37 am ]
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AEG163job wrote:

breaking & entering?

LAPD scenario (highway patrol).
Driver, pulled over - "License & registration please"
"What's the problem officer?"
"Your driver's side tail light is broken (pointing to it with his baton)
"No, officer its working fine"
SMASH - "it's not now"


reminds me of Dukes of Hazzard movie -

"The reason we pulled you over is because your tail light is out"
"Pulled me over? Sir, you hit me!"
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