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<\/a>I hit the brakes and the parking lights come on\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00c2\u00a0 Ofuk!\u00c2\u00a0 All that rain the other day shorted something in the FJ80 and now I have some weird, undecipherable electrical problem! \u00c2\u00a0I get home and start messing with stuff. \u00c2\u00a0Pull the parking light fuse \u00e2\u20ac\u201c still does it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c OK, the circuit is getting power from somewhere in back. \u00c2\u00a0I open the rear access panels and check for moisture on the rear lamp cluster connectors, but those are OK.\u00c2\u00a0 I disconnect the left cluster \u00e2\u20ac\u201c problem persists. I disconnect the right cluster \u00e2\u20ac\u201c problem goes away.<\/p>\nWeird.<\/p>\n
I replace the mystery China bulb with a slightly-less-mystery Sylvania Bulgaria one.<\/p>\n All is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WTF! I hit the brakes and the parking lights come on\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00c2\u00a0 Ofuk!\u00c2\u00a0 All that rain the other day shorted something in the FJ80 and now I have some weird, undecipherable electrical problem! \u00c2\u00a0I get home and start messing with stuff. \u00c2\u00a0Pull the parking light fuse \u00e2\u20ac\u201c still does it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c OK, the circuit is getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-99","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>I reconnect the left cluster to see if removing all of the brake lights from the circuit caused a false solution \u00e2\u20ac\u201c problem is still gone. \u00c2\u00a0It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the right cluster, alright. \u00c2\u00a0I pop the tail\/reverse bulb and find that the brake filament has burned out.\u00c2\u00a0 The leftover bits of the filament have fused the hot side of the brake circuit to the hot side of the tail filament.\u00c2\u00a0 Hitting the brake energizes the parking light circuit behind the switch or fuse!<\/a><\/p>\n