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#95704 05/24/2006 10:42 PM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 703 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 703 | Tail lights work fine, on both sides. When I step on the brake, the driver's side brake lamp works like it should, but the tail light on the passenger side goes out completely.
I checked the obvious, it's not the bulb. I'm thinking it must be a short.
Any ideas where to begin looking? | | |
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#95706 05/25/2006 1:52 AM | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | define tail light...........brake light,,,
tail light means to me you are checking the brakes lights with the lights turned on... and when you hit the brakes you then lose the brake light on the passenger side..but the tail light is still working..or am I confused..
either way like cletis says, could be a short,, mine would drive me crazy back yrs ago, I just cleaned the contacts good, made sure the bulbs were working and finally got it all in senc..
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#95707 05/25/2006 2:17 AM | Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 5,152 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 5,152 | Check your grounds. Cletis is right.
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#95708 05/25/2006 4:52 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 703 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 703 | Originally posted by joker:
define tail light...........brake light,,,
tail light means to me you are checking the brakes lights with the lights turned on... and when you hit the brakes you then lose the brake light on the passenger side..but the tail light is still working..or am I confused..
either way like cletis says, could be a short,, mine would drive me crazy back yrs ago, I just cleaned the contacts good, made sure the bulbs were working and finally got it all in senc.. Thanks everyone for the suggestion of checking the grounds. I thought about that after I posted. Will have to find a window of time to get it checked out. Fred, Tail-light= light that comes on (on back side of vehicle) when head/parking lights are on. Brake light, in this case is a second element being lit up when the brake pedal is depressed. Working correctly, the tail lights and brake lights should work together when the lights are on, and the brake pedal is depressed. In my situation, the tail lights work fine, until I press on the brake pedal. Then the light on the passenger side (brake and tail light) doesn't work at all. | | |
#95709 05/25/2006 6:05 AM | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,029 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,029 | The symptoms tell you that it can't be anything except a bad ground to the passenger side tail light assembly. The tail light is getting its ground through the brake lights to the drivers side and when you brake, that path is no longer there or you just have a high resistance ground on the passenger side assembly that can't carry the current of the brake light. I'd bet on the first scenario. | | |
#95710 05/29/2006 5:40 AM | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,867 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,867 | Whenever I ground wires I always clean up the spot and throw in a lock washer that has the teeth and a dab of die-electric grease.
The lock washers help scrape up the metal and make a good contact point.
Like joker says check out the contacts where the bulb actually touches. Ive had corrosion in there to thats made my lights not work. | | |
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