 NJxxxJonDSLR'er from the 56k days.Premium
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00000 | [Help] Got a ticket for ALL 3 TAIL LIGHTS staying on. Help! Great message board!
1.) Only happens when I turn my lights on. (at day when I hit the breaks everythings fine.
2.) I Have an AFTERMARKET auto-starter out of warranty put in.
3.) Can NOT use cruise control with lights on either.
4.) I do have an after market radio in.
06 Sentra with NON working Audiovox starter for winter. I have googled this shindig as well. 
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 mattmagPremium,ExMod 2000-03
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I believe you must mean *brake lights* are staying on.
First thing that comes to my mind is a defective bulb, second would be a bad socket, third is wiring problem. Tail light circuit when energized is feeding over into brake light circuit. Cruise would be inop since it is seeing current on brake light circuit.
Virtually impossible to determine exact issue without seeing it of course.
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
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Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:7 | reply to NJxxxJon
Did the lights (and/or cruise control) ever work since the starter was put in or stopped working? |
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NJxxxJonDSLR'er from the 56k days.Premium
join:2005-10-22
00000 | reply to mattmag
Hey YOU AGAIN! YESSSSS! haha.
2 months ~ ago I replaced a break light bulb that burned out. If that matters.
My cruise control worked ~ 5 months ago. '
Thanks!
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 JahntassaWhat, I can have feathersPremium
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Conway, SC
kudos:4 | said by NJxxxJon:2 months ~ ago I replaced a break light bulb that burned out. If that matters.
Yep, if you replaced a dual element bulb with a single element. You'd then be shorting out the brake lights with the parking lights. Check to make sure you have the correct bulbs, because i'll bet you don't. |
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 Doctor OldsI Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.Premium,VIP
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kudos:18 | said by Jahntassa:if you replaced a dual element bulb with a single element. You'd then be shorting out the brake lights with the parking lights. Check to make sure you have the correct bulbs, because i'll bet you don't.
You would really have to break guide pins on the single filament bulb base or destroy the dual filament base/socket to force in place the 1156 bulb (SC, SF, SP) into a socket made for the 1157 bulb (DC, DF, OP) as they are very different base designs.
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BobAccount deleted
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| Don't know about the OP's Sentra, but my Hondas use an entirely different type of bulb. The bottom is a glass tab, and wire contacts wrap around the bottom. |
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| said by Bob:Don't know about the OP's Sentra, but my Hondas use an entirely different type of bulb. The bottom is a glass tab, and wire contacts wrap around the bottom.
Only on the high mounted light. Sentra uses the other type on the lower stop lights like Dr Olds showed. |
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Yorba Linda, CA
kudos:5 | reply to NJxxxJon
said by NJxxxJon: I replaced a break light bulb It's a brake light, please. |
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said by Doctor Olds:You would really have to break guide pins on the single filament bulb base or destroy the dual filament base/socket to force in place the 1156 bulb (SC, SF, SP) into a socket made for the 1157 bulb (DC, DF, OP) as they are very different base designs.
I have seen it done many times.
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NJxxxJonDSLR'er from the 56k days.Premium
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00000 | reply to NJxxxJon
I HIGHLY doubt this is a bulb issue.
The amount of wires under my sterring wheel is nuts! |
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 pmohrPremium
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Maryville, TN | said by NJxxxJon:I HIGHLY doubt this is a bulb issue.
The amount of wires under my sterring wheel is nuts!
When you hit the brakes, does the dash illumination turn on?
Check when it's dark with the lights off, it's possible it is doing it and you just haven't noticed. |
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NJxxxJonDSLR'er from the 56k days.Premium
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00000 | said by pmohr:said by NJxxxJon:I HIGHLY doubt this is a bulb issue.
The amount of wires under my sterring wheel is nuts!
When you hit the brakes, does the dash illumination turn on? Check when it's dark with the lights off, it's possible it is doing it and you just haven't noticed. Would this help me find my problem??? This sounds scary....haha
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pmohrPremium
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Maryville, TN | If it's a bulb shorted, your dash lights will come on with the brake lights on, as both circuits are now common.
It won't do anything if there's a reverse current protection diode in the parking lights circuit, but I've yet to see one that does. |
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 ropeguruPremium
join:2001-01-25
Mechanicsville, VA | reply to NJxxxJon
Bad switch at the brake pedal? This will cause the brake lights to stay on and make the cruise control inoperable. |
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NJxxxJonDSLR'er from the 56k days.Premium
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00000 | said by ropeguru:Bad switch at the brake pedal? This will cause the brake lights to stay on and make the cruise control inoperable.
I just got done on 2 old dodge cars with this problem....but my new-er sentra????? Ill look under MR pedal later on I guess. |
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BobAccount deleted
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said by ropeguru:Bad switch at the brake pedal? This will cause the brake lights to stay on and make the cruise control inoperable.
Nope. His problem is the brake lights stay on only when the regular lights are on: quote:
Only happens when I turn my lights on. (at day when I hit the brakes everything's fine.
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 CCTVTechPremium
join:2003-04-23
Phoenix, AZ | reply to NJxxxJon
I had the same kind problem with a work van, it was a bad ground on one of the tail light sockets. The power was back feeding into the other positive leg causing both tail and brakes to be lit up.
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years ago I had a honda civic and came out from an 8 hour shift to find my brake lights had been on the entire time. What I found out there is a plastic piece that broke off that is underneath the dash. when you let off the brake pedal the whole arm thing that the brake pedal is on comes up and touches this plastic thing, or makes contact that turns off the brake light.
maybe check something like this out?
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NJxxxJonDSLR'er from the 56k days.Premium
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00000 | reply to CCTVTech
said by CCTVTech:I had the same kind problem with a work van, it was a bad ground on one of the tail light sockets. The power was back feeding into the other positive leg causing both tail and brakes to be lit up.
I have one cheap mutilmeter and no paitence. I will check behind my tail-lights tonight too I guess. |
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