Diagnosis problem - tailight oddity
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Diagnosis problem - tailight oddity
Ok My brakelights are doing something strange and I'm wondering if anybody knows what's going on.
The directionals are acting as if there's a light blown, blinking twice as fast as normal.
When the directional is engaged in either direction only the inside set of the four lights are lighting up.
When the brake is applied the outer two lights do not light up, nor does the third brake light.
All four lights light up when I put on the parking lights.
Is this just a matter of one bulb being out or could it be a fuse or perhaps a loose connection?
:cheers: ,
Chris
The directionals are acting as if there's a light blown, blinking twice as fast as normal.
When the directional is engaged in either direction only the inside set of the four lights are lighting up.
When the brake is applied the outer two lights do not light up, nor does the third brake light.
All four lights light up when I put on the parking lights.
Is this just a matter of one bulb being out or could it be a fuse or perhaps a loose connection?
:cheers: ,
Chris
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Re: Diagnosis problem - tailight oddity (Patches)
Possible it is those but let me first ask. Do you have the Euro tailights?
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Re: Diagnosis problem - tailight oddity (chrislee2)
When the brake is applied the outer two lights do not light up, nor does the third brake light.
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Re: Diagnosis problem - tailight oddity (chrislee2)
Ive seen this when a friend gave me some l.e.d. lights for the taillights and I tried them out. apparently they were made for a setup with a seperate blinker. Once I inspected the ligts it did not have all the metal nodes that the vette does. maybe half a tailight is out... let us know...
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Re: Diagnosis problem - tailight oddity (chrislee2)
Is this just a matter of one bulb being out or could it be a fuse or perhaps a loose connection?
Chris
Chris
I have seen this happen before on another car (not a vette) when one light had a problem. Many of the lights have dual filaments, and if one filament is blown, the whole magilla has problems. :crazy: There is prolly an easier way to do this, but since the bulbs are cheap, I'd just replace 'em all (they're all 3 years old anyway).... maybe somebody can give you a 'smarter' diagnostic than this, but I bet it would work :cheers:
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Re: Diagnosis problem - tailight oddity (Jd3)
If the bulbs turn out not to be the problem, it may be the turn signal switch. I had some problems with blinkers and brake lights. The blinker problem was intermittent, but I had no brake lights in the right rear. All my bulbs were good. I had a bad turn signal switch. I also read a post stating problems with a bad turn signal relay. Just a few more ideas if you can't fix it with new bulbs. SCOTT
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Re: Diagnosis problem - tailight oddity (99 The Hard Way)
I saw the light problem at Paul's shop as well. If the low filament is working on all four but the directional and stop filaments are not on the outer bulbs I would start right there.
It would seem the ground if fine, so pull the outside bulbs and replace them to eliminate bulbs as the problem.
It would seem the ground if fine, so pull the outside bulbs and replace them to eliminate bulbs as the problem.
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Re: Diagnosis problem - tailight oddity (jessejames)
Thanks everyone! I will try your suggestions. I have new bulbs and will start with replacement.
You can guess I'm very happy to get my car back after so long and Paul did an AWESOME job on it!! Thanks Paul!!!
Chris
You can guess I'm very happy to get my car back after so long and Paul did an AWESOME job on it!! Thanks Paul!!!
Chris
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Re: Diagnosis problem - tailight oddity (chrislee2)
I replaced the outer bulbs, and one of them was blown. After they were replaced all is well. As for my third brake light it was not hooked up and once plugged in, worked perfectly.
Thanks again for all your help and suggestions!
Chris
Thanks again for all your help and suggestions!
Chris
