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problem: changed my old tails to the new tails, and now my 3rd brake light....

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Old 05-26-2003, 05:52 PM
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Default problem: changed my old tails to the new tails, and now my 3rd brake light....

always stays on. it gets brighter when i brake, but it shouldn't be on at all times, should it? how do i fix this?
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Default Re: problem: changed my old tails to the new tails, and now my 3rd brake light....

is it possible you somehow wired your regular lights serially into your brake lights? Pressing on the brake would then add more voltage and thus a brighter light.
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Default if i wired my regular lights into my brake lights, where did i mess up?

i only changed the two wires on both tails, nothing else. how could i have brought the third brake light wire into the picture?
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Happenned to a fellow AWer earlier this yr. I think it was Stutterinj. He may have the answer.
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Default yup it was me... turned out to be a stupid mistake on my part

one of my brake light bulbs was a single filament bulb instead of the required dual filament bulb
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