Since changing the power stage I now have my brakes lights staying on all of the time. Could I have "bothered" something around the area of the power stage to cause this.

The brake lights in the tail light lens stays on when the lights are turn on, and the brake pedal has nothing to do with it. The center rear window light will work as normal when brake pedal pushed, but the brakes lights in the lens stay on all of the time.

fuzes good
Turns work
Back-ups work
Flashers work
Headlights ok
New lights all around from FPC Groton only six months old
No dash washing lights on (bulb failure)
Rear fog doesnt work

What can I start to check?

Thanks
Frank

Hi Frank,

On your '93, the parking, or running lamps (funny about the words for tail lamps) are two-to-a-side. I know we talked about this earlier Tail light details and I don't have memorized which is where.

But one of them on each side is the thin, 4-watt filament of a dual-filament bulb. The thick side is the 21-watt brake lamp. These dual filament lamps are tricky, with their special sockets and offset nubs on their bases. If one of them is inserted incorrectly, it could short the two circuits together.

That doesn't seem to be the case in yours, if the high-mounted (window) brake light is not lighted at all with the parking lamps. But it could be confusion resulting from the fact both tail and brake lights come from the same lens on the dual-filament bulbs. The brake lights are supposed to be the brighter of the two.

The power stage work would appear to be coincidental -- at least I can't think of any tie in up there.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore

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You didn't accidently turn on the rear Fog lights Did you? Of course on your '93 only the Drivers side would have the Brighter light.
I can't imagine anything close to the Power Stage causing this.

You mention 'Rear Fog Doesn't Work' does this mean teh light on the Switch doesn't illuminate or that the rear light litearlly doesn't get brighter?
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The rear fog switch lights up but no rear fogs. Have check ed all connections again just now after moving the car out of the garage.

Went back out to move it back in the garage and now it will not come out of park. Is there something electical that controls getting it out of park?

Frank

The nightmare continue.......

Not familiar with eth Automatic Tranis.. Mine is a Manual. I believe there is a fuse that contrls this. Ask the same question under Art Benstein's response.
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If your brake light fuse is not making good contact, and the brake lights don't work, your shift release won't work. That's the electrical part. You can use the release button manually, but it is a good warning that your brake lights might be out. Also, the AC fuse is involved, but less likely.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore

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Tried moving the car again and found out that if I push the brake pedal hard, it will release the shifter and I also found out that I am blowing #16 8A fuze.

I had been having trouble with the right rear side lights before and thought I had the problem fixed by bending the prongs on the brake/tail light plug to make better contact.

Maybe the circuit board on the right side is bad. All new lights came from FPC Groton and just maybe I got a bad right side circuit board.

Could a onside circuits board be causing my lighting issue?

Art....you are a prince and we are lucky to have you on here.

Thanks a million,
Frank

I may be getting closer to narrowing this brake light problem down. I read that somewhere that the white bulb holder is supposed to be on the right and the black on the left. When I was having trouble with the the lights a couple of weeks ago, I switched the black and white holders thinking one would be make better contact with the circuit board.


Could switching these two bulb holders cause the brake lights to stay on? Other than changing back to white on the right and black on the left and checking the fuze again, what other steps can I take?

Thanks
Frank