Brake Lights Driving You Nuts....

[NC_X5_Guy]

There is several posts on here dealing with the simple repair of fixing brake lights, or the tail lights/turn signals. About 2 months back my wife had a bulb out indicator, it was the brake light. Guy at a local shop fixed it and sent her on her way while I was out working. She had told me that a time or two it wasn't doing right, so today I went out and checked over it......found a couple of issues, first there was a bit of corrosion on the contacts, cleaned all of the contacts with a fingernail file and got all points of contact clean as well. Second, it looked as if at one time some idiot didn't line up the notches to slip the bulb holder into place and had pushed really hard and made the point of contact between the bulb and the base it wasn't making a full connection. I could tap on the light with my hand and it would work every now and then. My fix was simple....cleaned it all up good and bent up on the base of the bulb holder where the notches are so it would lock in firm.....problem solved, and only took about 45 minutes.

So....before you go and spend a few hundred on AM lights or repairs, try the methods listed here, they work!