My most recent gremlin-of-the-week is definitely a strange one: intermittently, when I step on the brake, all my lights shut down. They usually come back on when I release, but not always.

This includes all my dash lights, shiftlock mechanism, brake lights, signals, everything--except the car still runs fine. Oh, and the 'key's in and door's open' chime sounds while this happens. The other night the condition stayed for a few minutes, so I pulled over and managed to poke/rotate my fuses to see if the problems was there, but no avail.

It seems to have gotten worse, as occasionally before this, I'd notice a brown out (dimming of headlights and dash lights) when I'd step on the brake. I replaced the brushes on my alternator last year.

Any ideas on where to start? No fuses blow when this happens.

Thanks,

Chris Breitner

Ottawa, ON, Canada

1992 244 186600 km

Maybe you have a bad ground somewhere. One of the grounds for that circuit.

I would clean the connections in the trunk for the rear brake lights and

make sure there isn't any shorts from one light to another. If the

connector for the rear taillights is not on properly that could cause

some weird stuff like this.

Dave 82 242ti