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No brake lights

Yahoo Message Number: 15991
Has anyone had the brake lights go out? The bulbs are fine. The brake switch has power in and out, so we think it must be something in the wire. The next question is any good ideas on tracing the wires? It was working fine and when we left Tampa no lights. Very odd. We did have a problem with pressure switch in the same area. CC says it should not be related.

Thanks

Linda & Don
Intrigue 10678

Re: No brake lights

Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 15994
Judging from your unit number, you must have a 98 or 99 model? If so, I'll share an experience with my 99. We lost the brake lights a couple of years back. I blamed it on the wiring of the toad and not using isolators on the toad, I don't know? At any rate, we could not get them to work.
After a few hours of reading and chasing the wiring around and with the help of someone skilled in automotive wiring, we removed the panel by the steps, accessing the wiring from the back of the coach and from the dash area. We then located the wiring to the brake lights and the wiring from the brake switch. These are all found in the wiring diagram supplied with the manuals and are individually numbered. We made a direct connection with those wires and installed an in-line 15 amp fuse to re-establishing the brake lights.
After two or three years and a couple of different toads, I have never had a brake light failure, so it must have been one way to solve the problem.
If you exhaust all conventional methods, you may consider this solution. Good luck!

Larry
Intrigue
10762

Re: No brake lights

Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 16000
Linda & Don,

I have a coach just 5 units newer than yours. I had the same problem when I first got the coach in 2001. My problem was kind of intermittent and when the taillights went out the dash lights also went out. I traced the power from the light switch to a red moly block connector which is located in the compartment under the shifter keypad. There was a bad connection inside the moly block(I had power in, but no power out). I could play with the moly block & get the lights to come back on. I bypassed it & the problem went away. From memory(not good), I believe the taillight wire is #11 and brown in color. There are two of them going from the switch to the moly block.

Something to check...............
Steve

Intrigue #10673

Re: No brake lights

Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 16022
Linda,

Check your tail light fuse box in the rear of the coach, you could have blown a fuse and on most CCs they are in their own special fuse box.

bill G. 2005 magna #6425