Brake light warning symbol

[dougie175]

Since buying my car 6 months ago I have constantly had an intermittent brake light warning symbol, I have found it was my off side brake light and have replaced the bulb twice, Ive also replaced the nearside bulb but the problem still continues one time you will press the pedal and the offside will not illuminate, literally 2 seconds later you can press it and it will.

Im guessing it is probably the connection to the bulb, i.e a faulty bulb holder.

If I was to give it a bit of a clean up and spray with some electrical cleaner would this help or is it a case of sourcing a new bulb holder, getting sick of it now and just want to get it sorted.

Thanks

 

[Mpathe]

yes give it a clean with some sand paper or wire wool and spray it with the contact cleaner and should work fine then if not replace it or it might be something else

regards mike

 

[dougie175]

What else you thin it could be Mike? Bit of faulty wiring to the bulb holder possibly?

 

[Mpathe]

could be the bulb holder, could be where the wires connect to the holder or could also be a dodgy wire but I start with the bulb holder.

 

[Prawn]

Epic bump here, google brought me to this thread.

I have this problem too, and I've still not solved it after months of searching!

I contantly get the brake light warning light come on, to say my brake lights are broken, but they're working just fine :S
So far, I've changed all the bulbs, I've changed the bulb holders in the back, and I've changed the brake light switch on the pedal, and it's still just as bad. Sometimes it won't come on at all, but this is very rare. it usually comes on and off constantly every 30seconds - 1 minute the entire time you're driving.

it really does drive me mad! Anyone got any suggestions? I was sure it was the switch at first, but its obviously not

 

[<tuffty/>]

bad earth? sounds wiring related to me if its not the actual bulb...

<tuffty/>

 

[Jason.s]

Brake light switches are common on Mk4`s but you said you changed that so not sure..They do take a little while to register and clear the light but obviously not this long lol.

Just asked the w/shop controller and as usual they never want to give too much away or think too hard but just said it needs to be plugged in and see what fault codes are popping up when the lights on.

 

[Prawn]

No fault codes at all! That's the annoying problem

It's 100% the bulb warning lamp that comes on, but what's most confusing is that both sides as the high level light work perfectly the whole time despite the warning saying otherwise!

 

[A3Tom]

Random!

I had a similar issue with mine, it was the drivers side rear bulb holder first... then shortly after fixing that the pedal switch went!. All been fine since then though. The beep was driving me up the wall!

 

[pj123]

Have you checked you battery voltage?

I got the brake warning just on cold startups and was because the battery voltage was around 12.2v in the mornings not 12.4-12.6 for a healthy battery. New battery solved it for me.