Brake light bulb failure/warning

[Blue 8]

So far today every time i touch the brake pedal i have the brake / light bulb failure warning symbol coming up on the dash, but my brake lights are working fine?

According to the hand book it means that one of my brake lights are out, but there not?

Before posting on here i have checked the bulbs/holders/and terminals all appear to be fine.

[migrator]

Do you have a high level brake light and is it working?

Have you changed one of the stop/tail bulbs? Different makes of bulbs will draw different current to generate the watts.

Have you checked the earthing points for the lights as a bad earth will cause imbalance?

I think that the earthing points are the more likely cause of the imbalance.

[Blue 8]

Originally Posted by migrator

Do you have a high level brake light and is it working?

Have you changed one of the stop/tail bulbs? Different makes of bulbs will draw different current to generate the watts.

Have you checked the earthing points for the lights as a bad earth will cause imbalance?

I think that the earthing points are the more likely cause of the imbalance.

Will check the above now

[Blue 8]

high level brake light = Doh

Need i say more

Cheers migrator

[Easy Rhino]

Originally Posted by Blue 8

high level brake light = Doh

Need i say more

Cheers migrator

(okay, I wasn't going to say it but - me, too - just last month. Doh!).

[BlueBrickSte]

Dont know if construction and use regs are different here in Lancs but we have something similar to a high level brake light but it is called eye level brakelight. The same but without the h......