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May 2, 2011 | 10:25 AM

eddievetter1

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From: Eddie MI

No brake lights!!!

Hi guys and girls... Long time reader, first time poster...
My 99 convert has no brake lights. Center brake light works, but the main brake lights do not. (?)
any ideas?
Thanks.......

May 2, 2011 | 04:42 PM

GHL4505

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Hmmm! I had that same problem once.

I have LED tail lights and a bypass harness. The flasher bypass harness went bad. Replaced the harness and it has worked fine ever since. Not sure if that is what you have going on.

May 2, 2011 | 04:49 PM

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Did your car ever have Euro tail lights? That mod required that the white brake light wire be cut underneath the dash in order for the rear harness to work. If they were ever reverse engineered back to stock, the white wire would have needed to be reconnected. If so, it may have come lose. Just an idea...

Fuse maybe?

May 2, 2011 | 04:55 PM

rpm462

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Just went through the same thing and had to replace my hazard flasher module to left of center AC duct.

May 2, 2011 | 04:56 PM

dgrant3830

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Fuse and hazard switch are the usual causes.

May 2, 2011 | 11:04 PM

eddievetter1

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From: Eddie MI

No brake lights!!

Never had Euro lights. Bone stock. I ordered this car new.

I ordered the hazard switch today.
On the exploded view from the GM dealer, it is the hazard switch directly under the button.
Is this what I need?
Through reading, it was kinda confusing... some talk about a knee bolster, flasher unit, etc., etc., etc.......
Some called it the "flasher unit".
The woman at the GM dealer counter said she didn't know what that was and when typed in their computer, it didn't spit out anything called a "flasher unit"
I will await all replies....
It's getting warm and I can't drive my ride!!! :-(
I need advise on a cam too....... LOL
Livernois told me not to get anything on a 112 as it would "surge"..... (?)
114 is too close to stock..... I want it to SOUND like I put a cam in it if I'm going to spend the money...... let alone the performance......
More on that later.....
Thanks for the help guys.......

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Originally Posted by rpm462

Just went through the same thing and had to replace my hazard flasher module to left of center AC duct.

May 2, 2011 | 11:20 PM

Bill Vett

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Try pushing the flasher button on and off 15 /20 times and see if it works. Could be a dirty contact.

May 20, 2011 | 08:42 AM

eddievetter1

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From: Eddie MI

I have brake lights again!!! :-)

Hey guys/girls, the hazard switch replacement fixed my "no brake lights" issue......
Who woulda thunk?........

I appreciate the help I got here......
It was TIGHT to try to get that switch in there.... wow....
I fished a string through the hole, and used a vaccuum to suck it through the radio hole. Tied it to the switch and the string helped me guide it into the hole in the dash....
Again... thanks for the help.....

Hi guys and girls... Long time reader, first time poster...
My 99 convert has no brake lights. Center brake light works, but the main brake lights do not. (?)
any ideas?
Thanks