asianman139608

For some reason when i'm driving my brake light comes on. it'll go off if i completely take my foot off the gas for like 2 min. or hit the brakes. my ebrake is down all the way, not even in use while i'm driving. might this just be a bad sensor, brakes are going bad, or an electrical problem? any help would be greatly appreciated. i know its kinda hard to say exactly with out actually looking at the car.

994door

If your talking about the brake light in the cluster usually, in most other cars I have worked on, the speed sensor is bad. But I have never worked on a honda for that. On other cars the speed sensor is at the wheels. Do you have abs?

slacks

check your brake fluid too

DCSportEJ1Civic

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your talking about the abs sensor right? not the vehicle speed sensor on the transmission.

OP: when you pull up the e-brake does the light on the dash come on? (assuming your talking about the indicator light and not the actually brake lights on the back if the car)

99honcivsi

the tailight bulb is a double filament(it provides rear running lights and brake lights on the same bulb) the easiest check you can do is to make sure the bulb wasnt put in backwards and the wrong contacts are touching.......who knows you might get lucky and have an easy fix

BryanM.

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x2 I bet that's the issue.

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He's talking about the brake warning light on the gauges.

asianman139608

yeah i'm talking bout the indicator light on the cluster. the brake light comes on like its supposed to when i pull the e-brake.

slacks

check the fluid before you rip your console and dash apart

STDClayton

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ekpunker

Definitely check the fluid first.

This happened to me about a month ago. Once the fluid was topped up it never happened again.