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[Don't Panic]

I had a problem with my focus a couple of months ago, when i pressed the brake pedal the dash lit up as if i had turned my lights on. I took it to a garage and they just replaced a faulty bulb, sorted.

[1984mini25]

electric is lazy, it will find the shortest posable route home (earth) to the battery

check

bulbs - blown, wrongly fited, lose, corrosion or just the wrong ones
fuses - blown, wrongly fited, lose, corrosion or just the wrong ones
wires - conections are sound, corrosion or breakes in wire

earth points - lose or corrosion, even if they look ok clean them!!!!!

any wire that is attached to the vehcile body is an earth


i had a prob with my indicators a wile back
tured out to be the fuse was lose

fell out once, no lights at 60mph in the dark on a twisty B road

[frostie]

just letting everyone know i fixed the problem...

i hadn't noticed that while swapping and changing bulbs a few days before, i had swapped a reverse(or indicator) bulb, with single contacts, with the bulbs for the stop/tail lights, which obviously have two contacts!!

knew it'd be something simple!!! lol

thanx for all the help guys!