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#1 (**permalink**) 20 Aug 2003, 09:35 pm

Very good detective work! Can you imagine what that would have cost
if you had a mechanic or the dealer fix the problem. That is if they
could find it. I never heard of such a strange thing. I have a '91
Accord DX with 98,000 miles. It has all original bulbs except the
front right side marker and it does get driven at night.

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:59:24 GMT, "Nik Aves"
<nik.aves@nospamvertu.com> wrote:

>Here's an electrical problem that baffled me for a while and have never come
>across it before.
>
>Once when I drove my car into my drive I notice my dipped headlights were
>on, which
>was strange as they weren't turned on at the stalk on the steering wheel.
>They turned off
>when I removed my foot from the break peddle. I spent the best part of 3
>hours going
>through every circuit of the car, including stripping down the light control
>box under
>the dash board, all turned up no faults. Still, every time the break peddle
>was pressed
>the headlight relay would click, and the headlights would come on.
>I got to the back of the car and started investigating the 'broken filament'
>warning
>light circuitry, there was something strange going on with one of the break
>lamps.
>I removed the drivers side break lamp and examined the filament. The bulb
>itself
>is a dual filament type with both break light and side light. On closer
>examination
>I could see that one end of both the filaments were touching, so what was
>happening
>was that every time I pressed the break peddle the current would travel up
>the
>side light circuitry, into the light control box, and activate the relay,
>causing the
>headlights to turn on. I replaced the bulb, and all was fine. The worrying
>thing is that
>I replaced that bulb 3 weeks before, which means I was driving round for 3
>weeks
>flashing people as I slowed down!!!!!!
>Guess I was lucky there wasn't an accident......
>
>Nik
>

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