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I'm starting to find this electrical business very interesting, but I have a few more questions to throw out there. My driver's brake light has stopped working under normal conditions. I replaced the bulb and the tailight comes on when I hit my lights, but I don't get anything for a brake light. The only way I can make the brake light work is to turn on my right hand turn signal--then the brake light on the left side will work. Does this mean the problem is in the turn signal or at least the wiring near the steering column?
In trying to figure out what was wrong with my brake light I also found some wiring that seemed odd to me, and I was wondering if someone might know what possessed a PO to do this. There was a wire spliced (I use the term loosely /forums/images/icons/tongue.gif) from my headlight dimmer switch (red wire w/ yellow stripe) to the black lead on my driver's tailight. I thought it might be causing the problem I mentioned above, but removing the wire entirely has not affected either the problem or the operation of my dimmer switch. Was someone trying to make the tailights dim and brighten?
In trying to figure out what was wrong with my brake light I also found some wiring that seemed odd to me, and I was wondering if someone might know what possessed a PO to do this. There was a wire spliced (I use the term loosely /forums/images/icons/tongue.gif) from my headlight dimmer switch (red wire w/ yellow stripe) to the black lead on my driver's tailight. I thought it might be causing the problem I mentioned above, but removing the wire entirely has not affected either the problem or the operation of my dimmer switch. Was someone trying to make the tailights dim and brighten?