Reverse & brake lights fault

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awalshe
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Reverse & brake lights fault

Post by awalshe »

Hello,
I own a 1996 Xantia 1.9TD Mistral. The reversing lights have stopped working completely. The brake lights have also stopped working with the exception of a small section of the spoiler mounted LED display.
I have checked fuses and bulbs and they are fine. What would be my next course of action?
Andy
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Post by Dave Burns »

Sounds like you have got a bad earth somewhere, you will have to trace the wires and find the earth point.
You could take a known good earth from somewhere and conect that to the lights, if they work with that the culprit is nailed, don't get it wrong though or you will need some fuses to go at.
Some cars switch the reversing light's by earthing through the gearbox, only one conductor is required then, don't think Citroen would want things to be that simple though<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
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Post by NiSk »

Are the brake/reversing light fitted to the opening back door? If so I would suspect a wiring fault between the car body and door (rubber hose at top of doorframe). Otherwise follow Dave's advice.
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Post by spanners »

sounds like you are chasing 2 faults the reverse lights are very common for gearbox switch's going down they are awkward little b*****s under a sheild on top of gearbox. dont think it would be tailgate problem on brakes as brake light harness in rear wings, pedal switch must be working to light high level brake light, if it was earth would expect problem on indicator and side's at rear best bet is to remove multi plug on light cluster. you should have 4 connectors 1,earth 2,side 3,brake 4,indicator try them for lives with ignition on. if no live on brake wire suspect break in loom.
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