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Brake Lights

Started by stockvlt · 4 Sept 2002 · 8 replies

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stockvltArchived member
Wtf is wrong, I have no brake lights or dash lights but when i put my foot on the brake the brake lights and dash lights work but take the foot of the brake and nothing again, any help would be great.
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VHDREAMSArchived member
so you do have brake lights? I had sort of the same problem, my headlights would turn on whenever I used the brake, went through every wire, every earth etc, ended up being a blinker bulb in the brake light socket, if it isnt that it will most likely be an earth.
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MadHatterArchived member
I have a similar problem where when the head lights are on and i put my foot on the brake half the brake lights go out. I think its and earth problem. But what do i earth and where?!
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carcrazyArchived member
In the boot there is a black wire in the tail light harness, splice into that and ground it, that should fix the problem
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dr00Archived member
ive heard of weird things happening when ppl put the wrong bulbs in the wrong places.
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RooFArchived member
all my brake light woe's on my old VL V8 were fixed by earthing properly as carcrazy said, common problem on the VL's :roll:
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OVL087Archived member
as dr00 siad quite often ppl will put a bulb with only one filament in it in the socket where a two filament bulb should be. the lights will still work , although when the car is turned off and you press the brake pedal , the brake lights will work and so will dash and the headlights. also check the earthing as this sometimes screws up too.
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JET-6Archived member
I had the same prob with mine not all workin, best way to fix it was to goto GMH and get a replacement taillight harness, mine was corroded and gave all the globes a bad earth, all good now
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GoldenBoyArchived member
yea, when i first bought my vl whenever i braked the lights would come on and so would the dash lights. i checked all the globes and as it turned out the dikhead that owned it before me put normal 1 filament globes in there aswell.............as soon as i changed all the globes to brake globes, PROBLEM SOLVERED, so yea it is a common problem
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