Light problems.help please.

Was driving though town and stopped at traffic and the bloke in front got out off his car and come over to my car,i thought,here we go then fight on,but he said every time i was braking the drivers side light comes on,so got back home and had a look round,and the passeger rear brake light does not work but the normal light do.When the lights are on the right indercator flashes quick,but all the indercator bulbs are fine,the bloke said its proberly a short,any ideas on this?sorry to write so much.  :wink:  

Bad earth problems or corroded bulb holders or faulty bulbs

you need to clean and remake all the light earth connections and check all bulb holders for corrosion . Keep it simple electrical problems like this usually are .

You can also get funny results like this by using twin filament bulbs when singles should be used and vice-versa.

so all the bulbs in rear sould be single filiment,so is it cause there is a bulb out in the back it makes the head light flash when braking cause there is not a complete curcuit? :wink:  

Sounds similar to a problem i had recently, ended up being as simple as an earth wire was loose on my boot floor. Lets hope its that simple for you!!! :wink:

Got most off it working now but,problem now is,Indercators are fine on there own but when you aply the brakes the right one flashes realy quick,any ideas would be great,got the mot in a week.

cheers  :wink:

youve got the same problem as i had, chk my 'mot 2mo pls help' thread

it was the earth from the rocker cover, theres 2 on mine, 1 was holding on by 1 thread, i rewired it and all now works fine, took 10 mins

theres a list of earth points in the electrics archive thats very usefull, rule them out one by one,

easiest first

Cheers fella,i was thinking it was a earth wire,changed most off the bulbs,i will have a look at that post you said,where the earths are. :wink:

http://www.vwgolfmk1.org.uk/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=11023

cheers,any idea which one it might be,theres so many? :cry:  :wink:

have you ever had a complete system failure?

Not sure mate,i have only had the car 2 months and my mate had in since october05 so im not sure after that.is it a common problem?

reason for the question is that if you havent, and you would know by now, then you can pretty much rule out the battery end of the circuit,

check by the door hinges, theres an earth wire in the rubber housing there mine were cut through from rubbing, check your boot theres a couple, and your rear window heater circuit, it earths passenger side at the back of the boot, defo chk the rocker cover theres 2 there,

those are the easy ones,

and i bet its one of them, they seem vulnerable to me, ive only a little bit of xperience on this
all the knowledgable guys are out in there perfectly running golfs!!!

Cheers for the help fella,will check them,anyone else had this problem? :wink:

yep,got no dash,no ignition light,oil light,indicator light(although they still work)no temp gauge or fuel gauge :dontknow:

harps said

Got most off it working now but,problem now is,Indercators are fine on there own but when you aply the brakes the right one flashes realy quick,any ideas would be great,got the mot in a week.

cheers  :wink:

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I've the exact same problem,  anyone remember this thread and what the cause of the problem was.  Going slightly mad with it at the mo.