No brake lights...

[JamesL]

Evening all

Pulled up at work the other day and as I was about to turn off my engine the glow plug light started fllashing. Remembered seeing mentions on here about it meaning the brake pedal light switch having broken, so checked and sure enough I have no brake lights.

This evening I cut my hands up swapping the switch for a new one, only to find the new one has made no difference, I still havee no brake lights.

All fuses look ok, all bulbs working, unless the switch that Seat sold me is also broken, what else could it be?

Unfortunately haven't got VAGCOM so cant check it myself.

Typically working away this week and also got a family do this weekend so having to borrow my girlfriends 500. Its nice but its not the same

 

[godber225r]

I was going to mention the brake light switch as my mates diesel leon showed the glowplug light like yours did and his brake lights didnt work. We fitted a new switch and it worked, I can only say that the new switch is broken like you said because i cant think of anything else it could be.

 

[dav3]

Have you tryed a voltage tester on the conection plugs on brake pedal switch Failing that double check the fuses and other bulbs as sometimes a blown fuses/bulb can cause others not to work.

 

[JamesL]

turns out the fault code needs to be cleared before it will work again, so even though the switch was fine, because the code has been registered already the ecu looks at the codes first, before checking the switch itself.

had to send it to the dealer, £45 to plug it in and clear the code. :grrr: