new beetle brake light keeps going?
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right this is the third brake bulb that's gone on swmbo's new beetle 07 year.
what happens is that the rear bulb goes and when the brake is pressed the front side light (on the same passenger side) comes on & the rear side light illumintes.
when the side lights or headlamps are on & the brake is pressed the rear faulty light just goes out.
this is the third time it has happened so something must be up?
i've googled it & the only relatively similar fault appears to regard a faulty brake switch, in fact it seams in america there was a recall but i'm not sure if that applies over here?
anyone else come accross this or anything like it?
what happens is that the rear bulb goes and when the brake is pressed the front side light (on the same passenger side) comes on & the rear side light illumintes.
when the side lights or headlamps are on & the brake is pressed the rear faulty light just goes out.
this is the third time it has happened so something must be up?
i've googled it & the only relatively similar fault appears to regard a faulty brake switch, in fact it seams in america there was a recall but i'm not sure if that applies over here?
anyone else come accross this or anything like it?
Total blast from the past, I must have selected to be notified when someone posted!
We never got to the bottom of the problem (sold the car last year) but it just seemed to stop happening.
I was told it was to do with the voltage drop across the system causing the other lights to illuminate, which to be fair isn't such a bad thing as it at least alerts you to the fact that you've got a brake light out.
Whether we had a bad run of bulbs (unlikely), a dodgy "fitter" fitting them or it was simply fixed under warranty without telling us what exactly was going wrong I don't know. If I'm honest, the car wasn't purchased from a VW dealership but a Mazda one and if any warranty work was needed they never gave the impression of having the first clue about what they were attempting-they wrongly diagnosed an airbag fault 3 times but that's another story.
We never got to the bottom of the problem (sold the car last year) but it just seemed to stop happening.
I was told it was to do with the voltage drop across the system causing the other lights to illuminate, which to be fair isn't such a bad thing as it at least alerts you to the fact that you've got a brake light out.
Whether we had a bad run of bulbs (unlikely), a dodgy "fitter" fitting them or it was simply fixed under warranty without telling us what exactly was going wrong I don't know. If I'm honest, the car wasn't purchased from a VW dealership but a Mazda one and if any warranty work was needed they never gave the impression of having the first clue about what they were attempting-they wrongly diagnosed an airbag fault 3 times but that's another story.
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