Parking lights flashing with E-brake on
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Melting Slicks
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From: East Windsor NJ
Parking lights flashing with E-brake on
Bizarre - with the E-brake on the front parking lights alternately flash on and off. Not at the same time mind you - but appears to be a random pattern. These are LED units. With E-brake off they are on steady. This is with headlights off....
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What is the back story here? When did the problem start? Events leading up to the issue? Any recent maintenance or mods?
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Melting Slicks
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To my knowledge, the e-brake only has one connector, and provides a ground to the IPC to illuminate the brake light when the engaged. Unless someone has got creative with the wiring, or tapped into the circuit, I have no idea.
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Melting Slicks
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Video of my possessed parking lights. Piston slap in full effect on a 35deg morning 
https://1drv.ms/v/c/d4505d7e7a332246...aWddSnlQt0DJww
https://1drv.ms/v/c/d4505d7e7a332246...aWddSnlQt0DJww
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From: Dyer, IN
Video of my possessed parking lights. Piston slap in full effect on a 35deg morning
https://1drv.ms/v/c/d4505d7e7a332246...aWddSnlQt0DJww
https://1drv.ms/v/c/d4505d7e7a332246...aWddSnlQt0DJww
As previously discussed, did you inspect the wiring going to the e-brake connector ? You could also disconnect the connector, and pull the e-brake to see if that changes anything.
Burning Brakes
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Probably junk LEDs. I had a cheaper set of led brake light bulbs in the past cause my instrument cluster and such to flash whenever I hit the brake. Put a better set of bulbs in and it stopped. Mind you the entire time I did have a hyper flash harness installed.
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Melting Slicks
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From: East Windsor NJ
So I think I figured it out. In this post I noted that one of the side market lamps was out. I replaced all the front markers and now the flashing has stopped.
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ng-lights.html
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ng-lights.html