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My o/s brake light doesn't work. I have the rear light out and no bulbs blown. I also have the head lights off. BUT what am i actually looking for? Cheers.

dirty/poor contacts in the holder?

For some bizarre reason I think I had a similar problem and the lights operated on a seperate fuse, not sure this was normal but threw me for ages, I didnt think of checking the fuses as the other side was working fine and assumed they were on the same fuse. Long shot I know!
Have you tried the earthing point on the n/s inner a post behind the glove box?

get a multimeter on the wire into the back light pod and get someone to press the brake over and over and see if theres a break in the power if not it must be in the light unit

rotten wire or connector,
and swap bulbs, just coz they look ok, dont mean they are

kevtherev wrote:dirty/poor contacts in the holder?

What needs to be done to sort this problem?

Try popping the front off the black box on the LHS of the engine bay where there are about 4 multiconnectors...wiggle em about and see what happens.
Had a rear light not working intermittantly and it was a mucky connector in there....Hope this helps!

Will check it all out tommorrow thanks for the advice everyone.

Pep....check your fuses! As above, mine had a seperate fuse for each side. One side out, but when we transposed the bulbs, the apparently furbarred bulb worked in the other side.

Em
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check for damp in fuse box due to leaky windscreen,a quick blast with wd40 type stuff and a pulling the relevant fuses may help ,as someone said to me when i had a similar problem "keep it simple,and you will find it"(eventually)