Electrical Gremlin - Brake Lights

[ginge191 10]

Brake lights arn't working on the 205 - completely stumped by this.

 

So the rear clusters ARE working (reverse, indicators, night lights and fog lights) yet the rear brake lights don't work.

 

Checked the fuse - fine

Checked the switch behind the pedal (multimeter tested) - fine

Checked bulbs - fine

Checked earth - only one earth 'plug' for the back and its intact and clean

Checked plugs and socket on rear brake light cluster - fine

 

Also, when any electric item goes on or activates when having the radio on, it interferes (ol'skooool), so for example, i turn the wiper on, the radio gets interefered, as with the headlights, fans etc - and is the same when i press the brake, so there is 'something' there, just notillumination at all.

 

any ideas?

[Rjuhar 52]

I had a stupid error similar to yours - when we were putting the car together after changeing half of the dashboard the illumination of the dash did not work and it took quite a while before we found an error - we accidently swapped the wires for break pedal switch and the dash illumination dimmer.