Sorry if i ask about something that has already been covered, but when i press my brake the dash light comes on and wont go of until i turn the key back off. All the bulbs are good, and all the lights work properly. Any suggestions?

 

i have the same problem anybody got any ideas

 

do you have a spoiler light?

 

I have one that was unhooked when I bought my car, and as soon as I hooked it up, the brake lamp started coming on..... any way to fix that since someone already created a thread about it????

 

i dont have a spoiler light and it still comes on

 

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check your bulbs or fluid.

 

if your brake fluid is low, the emergency brake light comes on

the brake light you guys are talking about is the 'bulb out' sensor...

the way it works is that it measures current draw through the taillights, it is done inside that little box on the back of the taillight housing.....

now, if you have a bulb out, the bulb will draw less current due to the open in the circuit, or it will draw too much, it really just depends on how the bulb blows, it will either completely sever the filiment and be an open, and the current draw goes to zero, or it will fail to produce light, and the filiment becomes a short, and the current draw goes way up....

that sensor trips that light when the current is too high or too low, so if your car didnt originally have a spoiler light, that light is now drawing more current than the system is used to, and it trips the light...

your solution:
1) get the unit off the driver side taillight from a car that came with a spoiler oem

or

2) do what i did, and figure out that the light comes on when that sensor un-grounds the wire that runs up to the dash, so i cut it and grounded the wire out permanently to the chassis back there.....

how did i figure this out?? i forget, but i can garauntee that i used a multimeter and the pink squishy thing that resides inside my skull....didn't take that long to find the wire, but if i must, i can get back there and take a look at what wire it is for you guys...its been like 2 years since i did this so i dont remember which it is anymore....

to all the guys that have a light on now and dont have spoilers....did your car have one originally?? either way i would just do the fix like i did, that light, though convenient, is probably not worth the hassle....

 

i've been trying to take out the ugly third brake light from my 92...the huge block that destroys about 1/8 of your rearview...

but for some reason that light has to connect a circuit or something...because it sends a signal...I tried to connect both green wires (since there are two greens and a ground i believe) but no luck...stupid brake lamp bulb stays on.

 

My lude has no spoiler at all. Originally i had a brake light melt my taillight housing. That caused my brake light to stay on all the time. I changed that and put in a new bulb. Now the brake light is off until i press the brake down. Now if the box on the back of the taillight is drawing to much or to less current, why do i have the problem if i changed the whole thing?
There has to be a way to fix this without cutting any of the stock wiring.

 

i had the same problem while back i just bought new tails and it went away. i tried switching bulbs no luck there. but hey if u do decided to get new tails clear out one set and use them. sorry off topic. but check to see if u have the right number bulb in there.

 

awesome dude..... that sounds pretty easy, but I think I'll use the GREY squishy thing that resides inside my skull to figure it out.... lol, The car came with that spoiler on it though maybe someone changed the driver's side tail then..... Did you say the little grey box on the tails is where the wire is?? Plus, how did you learn that, amongst the other 50 buhgilliion things you know about ludes?

 

Hey thanks!! I figured it out. on the third brake light /upper. if you dont have the exactsize bulb the light kicks on because it operates off of resistance. So if the bulbs arent the same that the car requires, then they are going to have different resistance, tripping the dash light