when i turn full beam on, this happens:



when i press the brake lights, they work, but they put my front side lights on too.

i can get a set of front lights for £30 but with the front lights coming on and spots going off i'm thinking it could be wiring instead or even aswell, any ideas?

Alex-R said:

when i turn full beam on, this happens:

when i press the brake lights, they work, but they put my front side lights on too.

i can get a set of front lights for £30 but with the front lights coming on and spots going off i'm thinking it could be wiring instead or even aswell, any ideas?

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At a first guess if braking turns on your sidelights then i'd say the earths, give em a good clean

Worng type of bulb inserted somewhere

rusty connector or earth.

is that a young blond lass in the car? haha go on alex!

lol Jug, sister lol. my gf wont go anywhere near it

i had a look for the earths, can't see anything that looks like an earth, im not so hot on electrics as you may have guessed lol.

will have a look at bulb connectors when i get the chance.

either they ignored this on the MOT or it just happened lol.

or it went wrong after the mot

hope you can sort it

nobody noticed my plate lol

Check the earth on the rear lamp clusters (in fact clean all the contacts on there), it's probably the brake lights can't get a good earth so they're finding another route through the side lights (if I'm certain the brake bulbs are a Stop/Tail twin element type).

Have you checked the bulb for the main beam problem on the O/S?

its a ford

T14086 said:

its a ford

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INDEED LOL

one of my cousins had a mk3 fiesta recently that did exactly the same thing, he would be coming towards you in bright sunlight and suddenly his headlights would come on

sorry alex, im not helping

Not more ford bashing!

but you sold your mondeo?

Nope its still here

oh ok...let me know when its sold:devil:

had a word with an auto electrical place down the road and they reckon worst case senario is the fusebox costing 60 quid, a common problem on that year of ford/escort.

i'm going to take it there wednesday but in the mean time does anyone have any advice for trying to find dodgey wires bad earths? would be great if i could sort it out without having to pay

EDIT: i'll be taking it thursday as i didn't realise if i bught tax todayi'd practically loose a month, i don't know where i am these days lol.

Alex-R said:

had a word with an auto electrical place down the road and they reckon worst case senario is the fusebox costing 60 quid, a common problem on that year of ford/escort.

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£60! feck off they go for £10 at scrapyards and are easy to remove/fit. i must have replaced half a dozen of them in the past. they can cause all osrts of crazy faults, but personally i think your lighting problem is caused elsewhere.

its funny that i had the exact same problem on my escort, but that was a mk7 (or mk6 if you're a true ford man and realise there were 2 mk5's). that turned out to be a fault in the headlight.

jug said:

£60! feck off they go for £10 at scrapyards and are easy to remove/fit. i must have replaced half a dozen of them in the past. they can cause all osrts of crazy faults, but personally i think your lighting problem is caused elsewhere.

its funny that i had the exact same problem on my escort, but that was a mk7 (or mk6 if you're a true ford man and realise there were 2 mk5's). that turned out to be a fault in the headlight.

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well i might have a look at a scrappy tommorow, get new set of front lights and the fusebox, check the wires and earths if i can while im doing that, how exactly do i remove the fusebox and fit it to my car?

your easy may differ to mine when it comes to electrics lol

Could also be the stalk inside too, have you replaced any bulbs recently?

I'd remove all and check condition as a starting point.

Liam

Liam said:

Could also be the stalk inside too, have you replaced any bulbs recently?

I'd remove all and check condition as a starting point.

Liam

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very good point! i had that off not so long ago when the bonnet cable come un done. what exactly would i look for?

please excuse my lack of knowledge lol

continuity between 2 circuits that are supposed to be isolated would tell you there was a short in the stalk, and no continuity through a single circuit shows that the switch contact is broken.