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Old 01-22-2015, 07:40 AM
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Every time I hit the brake the brake light warning light goes on. Obviously checked all the lights to see if they functioned. The front turn signal also blinks whenever i apply brakes. When I turn on headlights the high mounted light turns on as well. Please help the beeping from the warning is annoying the hell outta me.
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Well the little tail light circuit board, the thing all the bulbs push into, in the tail lights are known to cause intermittant on off warnings. Also if you put the wrong bulb in, say a single filament bulb into a socket designed for 2, it will cause all sorts of funny things.
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Originally Posted by Prospeeder
Well the little tail light circuit board, the thing all the bulbs push into, in the tail lights are known to cause intermittant on off warnings. Also if you put the wrong bulb in, say a single filament bulb into a socket designed for 2, it will cause all sorts of funny things.
Hopefully its just a matter of changing the bulbs . however is it possible to switch out the circuit boards you mentioned, if the bulb switching doesn't work. I'm sorry if its a dumb question I'm new to Audi just purchased the car a month ago.
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Hi Sam,
have you fix the annoying brake warning light?
I'm having the same problem.
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Hi Sam,
have you fix the annoying brake warning light?
I'm having the same problem.
Yes I did, it actually was the single filament bulb in the brake light doing it just swapped it with dual filament and now it works. Hope that helps
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Good for you, I'm still figuring out mine, I replaced my tail light with euro style led light, since then it is giving problem. I read somewhere that Led light is not compatible with the CAn Bus. But I noticed as well that the auxilliary brake light on the rear seat is blown out I'll try to replace this tomorrow, hopefully this is the problem.
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