Freelander 1 rear/brake light problem

[siwil1]

Just picked up an immaculate early freelander (98) but it appears to have a problem with the brake lights / rear lights.

When the lights are switched on the brake lights illuminate ( all 3), When the brake pedal is pushed they do get a little brighter, With lights off brake lights appear to be fine.

Is this a known problem?

or if not any ideas. I only picked the car up last night so havent done any research yet (PH wisdom hopefully will save time) so apologies if this is a "They all do that scenario".

Thanks in anticipation


Simon

[DanDan1980]

Check the right brakelight bulbs are fitted, if someones wedged a single filament in instead of a twin it can short the 2 circuits together and cause them to come on together, A regular cause of the same fault on a RR sport/disco3 though off the top of my head i cant recall if FL1 has twin filament bulbs...

[siwil1]

DanDan1980 said:

Check the right brakelight bulbs are fitted, if someones wedged a single filament in instead of a twin it can short the 2 circuits together and cause them to come on together, A regular cause of the same fault on a RR sport/disco3 though off the top of my head i cant recall if FL1 has twin filament bulbs...

Cheers will check later.

Read a bit about brake light switch but I think thats more to do with HDC lights on dash.

Thanks you were right sort of! one of the bulbs looked like it had blown, quick change and all sorted

Edited by siwil1 on Saturday 8th October 23:50