Q: Left brake high power not illuminating, bulb is just fine.

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Scott G

on September 09, 2017

My left brake light high power portion of bulb wont illuminate when brakes are depressed, when lights are turned on the low power portion of bulb works, but when brakes depressed still no high power brake light illumination. Right side works just fine. Dealership replaced bulb when they told me it was out, get home still did not work so I took vehicle back. They said they re-soldered a connection and brake light worked, got home again and its still bad...they didn't fix the problem, I think they didn't realize which portion of the light was not working...they arent that great. Anyway, Left brake high power not illuminating, bulb is just fine. Could the brake light switch be bad, only sending signal to right side, is that a possibility? The wires on the connections look to be just fine, and dealership said themselves they tested power through the connector.

My car has 118000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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