Hello everyone i am having a small issue with a warning light which is stating i have a failed brake light. After reading some post here i have changed both bulbs and fitted a new brake light switch which was very intresting to fit to say the least. I still have not solved the problem i can confirm the brake lamp do work and have done since i have had the car which is about 12 months anyone have any ideas or is there a way to just disable the warning
Technical Brake light fail
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Technical Brake light fail
My Bravo reels off a whole list of failed light messages, but there's only one that actually doesn't work. Maybe the fault code needs resetting after the bulb is replaced.
I have this fault showing.
I have had the rear light clusters out and thoroughly checked for poor connexions to the bulbs and the connectors. I have even run separate earths to the chassis and I still get the failed rear light warning!
The funny thing is, that during the warm summer months I never get the failed bulb warning it only comes on at the beginning of the cold, damp months and is there for the duration of winter unless I go for a long run with the heater blasting when it may go out after a restart.
I live with it now - too many hours wasted looking for the cause!
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Put a new rear light cluster in. It cured mine. Mine did that from new for 12 months until they changed the cluster. Would be cheap enough fix 2nd hand
i think my problem has got worse since the wet weather as i did seam to be intermittent for a while i wonder if the damp is causing a higher level of resistance which is triggering the warning! Does anyone know if it is a mot fail as i have that next month should be interesting
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Hi kevin, Same strange behavior here as well. I got a 2002 Stilo Dynamic 1.6 Petrol and when the colder days started in late autumn i intermittently got the same Brake Light Failed error message thou my brake lights are perfectly fine it's odd to say the least but i checked and double checked and the brake lights work perfectly fine when it gives me that error. If the lights are working fine when the error appears I presume it senses a not normal light resistance or possibly a small short and gives the error. I just go with the cold damp weather and that it's a 10 year old car. But still purrs like a kitten and drives well...not minding the occasional error message here and there. Besides cleaning the contacts in and out of the light cluster, making sure the lead wire connectors snap on nicely to the cluster there is not much you can do.
Hope it will pass with warming weather...it's gonna be spring anyway soon hope so.
Cheers
it's odd to say the least but i checked and double checked and the brake lights work perfectly fine when it gives me that error. If the lights are working fine when the error appears I presume it senses a not normal light resistance or possibly a small short and gives the error. I just go with the cold damp weather and that it's a 10 year old car. But still purrs like a kitten and drives well...not minding the occasional error message here and there. Besides cleaning the contacts in and out of the light cluster, making sure the lead wire connectors snap on nicely to the cluster there is not much you can do. Hope it will pass with warming weather...it's gonna be spring anyway soon
hope so.Cheers
I presume these are messages on the instrument panel LCD. Reading the handbook, I notice there is a warning message for the brake failure lamp (as opposed to the brake lamps on the back of the car, this is for the brake failure lamp on the instrument cluster!)
Therefore I think your checking will have to include the fluid level sensor on the reservoir. Clean its contacts and measure its resistance (obviously, check the fluid level is correct too).
Theoretically there could be a problem with the light in the instrument cluster, but since it's probably an LED, failure there seems unlikely.
-Alex
Therefore I think your checking will have to include the fluid level sensor on the reservoir. Clean its contacts and measure its resistance (obviously, check the fluid level is correct too).
Theoretically there could be a problem with the light in the instrument cluster, but since it's probably an LED, failure there seems unlikely.
-Alex
