Rear lights fail - shared fuse plus lucky escape

MattR · Postby **MattR** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 6:38 pm

My 2013 model FGMKII Falcon only has 2 brake lights from the factory with no third centrally mounted high level brake light.

HTH :lol:

greenltd · Postby **greenltd** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:22 pm

Matt, it has to have a third light, it's law, either in the window or spoiler.

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Vat · Postby **Vat** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:31 pm

Actually, your mentioning that the dash lights are on the same circuit as the tail lights is really appreciated. Three years ago (ironically, while we were shopping for its replacement) our Gen IV Liberty went into limp home mode.

I dropped into our mechanic (French's in Woolloongabba, so if you have a Subaru or Alfa, go there, they're awesome), withing 5 minutes two blown brake lights were diagnosed, I forced them into taking $20 when they only wanted $5 and we were good to go.

It'd kill car makers to put in "tail light" and "brake light" fail lights? My '88 Magna wagon had one, FFS.

MattR · Postby **MattR** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 8:19 pm

greenltd wrote:Matt, it has to have a third light, it's law, either in the window or spoiler.

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Nope, it only has two brake lights, one each side of the car at the rear and no light in the rear window. It doesn't have a spoiler either. Does have a funny shaped boot though........

davekmoore · Postby **davekmoore** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 8:51 pm

Mr Morlock wrote:The comments dave mentioned are at odds with the owners manual for NBP2- the dash lights are controlled in the cabin by fuse 14 - fuse 12 is for tail lights. i.e. they are not the same at least according to the manual. I would suggest to anyone that the glove box has an owners manual in it for reference. Diffferent models may not the same.

Given his comments it will now be good for MM to talk us through how, after replacing the single fuse as described, the tail lights and dashboard lights both started working, having both failed at the same time, and how the brake lights never stopped working.

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 11:13 am

bruce wrote:If I remember rightly, the old NA had two slots for spare fuses on the underside of the fuse box lid (which were populated).

Indeed.

Mr Morlock · Postby **Mr Morlock** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 7:30 pm

Dave- I spelled out what was in the Owners manual and I posed a question about the 21/5 bulb- if there is no power to the bulb how then does a brake light work- I don't know. Perhaps Taminga has an idea. In any event if a fuse is replaced and it works then one is a happy chappy.