23-08-2021, 02:49 PM
Hello all,
As the title says. My brakes work perfectly but my wife informed me today i have no brake lights at all.
So, usual checks, bulbs and contacts. Bulbs are fine and as the position lights works contacts are also fine as these are a dual filament bulb.
Fuses checked and all good...i had to check all as i can not find one labelled for the brake lights, but all good.
So, next stop is the brake light switch on the brake pedal. Easy enough to remove, you pull off the white connector and pull out the switch. It is just pushed in the hole on the pedal with a friction fit.
I put a continuity meter on the two spade connectors and nothing registered. The switch is permanently open with the pedal up so when you brake the pedal closes the little pillar swich making a circuit. When my little pillar was pushed in there was no circuit.
Easy enough to pull the switch apart and the problem is obvious. Over the years of this switch constantly being under spring tension the little metal contact bar has slowly pushed into and deformed the plastic it is mounted in and contact is no longer made.
Simple fix...buy and fit a new switch.
Tight arse fix....bend bits until the contact is made again, enlarge the hole the pillar fits through so it does not bind and re-fit. Job done.
I now wait for the next 'whatever' to fail !
As the title says. My brakes work perfectly but my wife informed me today i have no brake lights at all.
So, usual checks, bulbs and contacts. Bulbs are fine and as the position lights works contacts are also fine as these are a dual filament bulb.
Fuses checked and all good...i had to check all as i can not find one labelled for the brake lights, but all good.
So, next stop is the brake light switch on the brake pedal. Easy enough to remove, you pull off the white connector and pull out the switch. It is just pushed in the hole on the pedal with a friction fit.
I put a continuity meter on the two spade connectors and nothing registered. The switch is permanently open with the pedal up so when you brake the pedal closes the little pillar swich making a circuit. When my little pillar was pushed in there was no circuit.
Easy enough to pull the switch apart and the problem is obvious. Over the years of this switch constantly being under spring tension the little metal contact bar has slowly pushed into and deformed the plastic it is mounted in and contact is no longer made.
Simple fix...buy and fit a new switch.
Tight arse fix....bend bits until the contact is made again, enlarge the hole the pillar fits through so it does not bind and re-fit. Job done.
I now wait for the next 'whatever' to fail !
It's a 2001 1.9d with 322,500 k on the clock.
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