afternoon everyone

just going to share my experience with my high-level brake light on my 850.

for a few months id been getting the bulb malfunction light coming on when i pushed the brakes. the centre brake light was not coming on. check the bulb, seemed ok. put it back in and it worked fine again for a few minutes.

this started and stopped for a few months. i kept playing with the fitting, checking the wiring, the bulb, everything round there.

this afternoon i decided to nail this down. while testing the circuit i noticed the bulb was lighting up with changing brightnesses. some taps of the brake were full brightness then otheres were real dim. voltage testing confirmed this. i dismanted more of the fitting to find that there was arcing of the sliding terminals that allow the fitting to be decoupled from the rear shelf. the terminals car-side had got so hot that theyd melted a bit of their plastic surround.

i cleaned the area up with a knife, wud have been sand/glass paper but not got any. lots of burnt metal and dust around. and it works like new again!

any one with similar experience of this?

Rich

 

it feels great to get to the bottom of little problems like that i had a few fiats before i went back to volvos ,give me a volvo any day