1994 Toyota Corolla brake light problem
#1
11-19-07, 10:01 AM
1994 Toyota Corolla brake light problem
I have a 1994 Toyota corolla, the 2 bottom rear brake lights work fine but the high mounted brake light (collision light) doesn't work. I have replaced the bulbs but still won't work. Any ideas? Thanks.
#2
11-19-07, 04:05 PM
Sounds like you are going to have to physically trace wires. Since rear ones work, that or the bulb or socket or ground(wire) is about all that's left. Maybe the wire is routed somewhere where activity in the trunk or under the car or beneath the carpet got it damaged/snagged, or it got corroded?
You'd think that a wire would be pigtailed or otherhow spliced/connected to one of the rear lights to go up to that rear window? light, and you'd just have to go back there and start following it. The problem may even be right at a splice/pigtail or other joinery at either the rear lights or the window light. This may be a little time consuming. But I'd guess that of all the wire tracing problems one could possibly encounter about a car, this one would have to be about the easiest, from the fact you already know where you DO have power at, and it's not a switching, fuse, or other issue.
You'd think that a wire would be pigtailed or otherhow spliced/connected to one of the rear lights to go up to that rear window? light, and you'd just have to go back there and start following it. The problem may even be right at a splice/pigtail or other joinery at either the rear lights or the window light. This may be a little time consuming. But I'd guess that of all the wire tracing problems one could possibly encounter about a car, this one would have to be about the easiest, from the fact you already know where you DO have power at, and it's not a switching, fuse, or other issue.
