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GU Parker lights come on when brake is pressed..

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:18 pm
by simcoe
hi guy's
me again,on my way to work this morn and i thought that i put my parker lights on(which i didn't) cos my speedo etc was lighting up randomly but i realised that everytime i pushed the brake the parkers come on..

i assume there's a short somewhere..?
i'v checked the fuses and there all good!
is there somewhere where i should start looking??

thanks

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:24 pm
by nabstud
My sister once tried changing her rear brake light but somehow managed to jam the bulb in the wrong way and it had the same effect...

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:40 pm
by turbo gu
more than likely a bad earth somewhere

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:48 pm
by BowTieGQ
Trailer plug.

lights

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:58 pm
by tuflox
check your brake bulbs,

Re: lights

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:57 pm
by simcoe
tuflox wrote:check your brake bulbs,

hmm
i did just put 2 new brake lights in the rear!
had them lying around in the center console so threw them in and they worked so i left them! pretty sure they were the right ones..
i'l go and check.. :oops:


thanks

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:38 pm
by JON353
mine did the same thing, turned out to be the rear stop/tail bulb holder had melted abit therefor shorting against each other

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:41 pm
by simcoe
well found the prob..!
i pulled all the rear brake lights out(upper 1 and lower 2)
and found that the upper brake bulb is 21w 12v and the lower ones are 21w 5v..i didnt really bother checking when i put them in :oops:
anyway now with the correct 5v bulbs it's all good again!

cheers for the tips guys!

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:36 pm
by Farva
was gonna say, any of your mates been by your car lately. one of me mates at work ran a wire from my indicator to my horn, cheeky bastard! everytime i put right indicator on the horn would go off each time it flashed. was gold! took it off when i got home. next day his top tray in his toolbox was full of concrete with tools sticking out the top! :armsup: