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Brake Lights stopped working - help! E36
The two rear brake lights and cyclopse on my 1997 BMW 318ic E36 has
stopped working - I checked the fuses under the hood and all looks good - any advice what else it could be?Thanks in advance, |
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Brake Lights stopped working - help! E36
It happen to me just last week.
Brake pedal switch. > wrote in message oups.com... > The two rear brake lights and cyclopse on my 1997 BMW 318ic E36 has > stopped working - I checked the fuses under the hood and all looks good > - any advice what else it could be?Thanks in advance, > |
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Brake Lights stopped working - help! E36
"MJD" > wrote:
> It happen to me just last week. > Brake pedal switch. This happened to me about a year ago (1997 E36 318i). There is an easy test for this condition before you go to the dealer or start tearing it down yourself. Find a nice empty chuck of freeway and set the cruise control, then tap the brakes. If the cruise disengages, your pedal switch is OK. If not, then it's the switch. Tom. |
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Brake Lights stopped working - help! E36
Tom Sanderson wrote:
> "MJD" > wrote: > >>It happen to me just last week. >>Brake pedal switch. > > > This happened to me about a year ago (1997 E36 318i). There is an easy test > for this condition before you go to the dealer or start tearing it down > yourself. Find a nice empty chuck of freeway and set the cruise control, > then tap the brakes. If the cruise disengages, your pedal switch is OK. If > not, then it's the switch. > > Tom. > > I think there are more than one set of contacts in that switch, so that test may not be valid for all cars... -- -Fred W |
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Brake Lights stopped working - help! E36
In article . com>,
> wrote: > > In addition to the brake pedal switch suggestion, you might also want > > to check the wiring loom. My 93 E36 recently lost the brake lights. > > Then a day later the license plate lights. Then then the fog lights. > > Then I lost power to the windows and central locking, and finally the > > alarm. Discovered that all the wires were breaking and shorting in the > > part of the loom that is exposed at the side of the boot/trunk - years > > of opening and closing had caused them to split. > Follows...more of that fine German engineering. I guess it never > occured to them that trunk lids will need to be opened and closed > over time. More likely the loom has been disturbed for accident repairs etc and not correctly replaced. -- *(on a baby-size shirt) "Party -- my crib -- two a.m Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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