Bck light failure - United Bimmer Community

**Vik** · 04-18-2007, 01:23 PM

My back light falure light is on, for both sides, but all of my lights work

any ideas what it could be and how to locate it

thank you

**mullethunter3** · 04-18-2007, 01:38 PM

My mother's car used to do that. All the time. That symptom is attributed to "corroded" contacts. BavAuto sells a contact cleaner specifically for that. It's called DeoxIT, part number D5M2-15 in the BavAuto catalog. BavAuto

**Vik** · 04-18-2007, 01:42 PM

Awesome, thank you so much

**mullethunter3** · 04-18-2007, 01:44 PM

I'm here to help.

**Vik** · 04-24-2007, 12:37 PM

I cleaned the contacts and it still is not working, is there a sensor maybe that I can repleace?

**c1apton** · 04-24-2007, 05:06 PM

is the 3rd brake light working? Many people forget that one.

**mullethunter3** · 04-24-2007, 08:06 PM

If it isn't the contact, the actual socket may be melted. (Generally the bulb still works.) That also happened on her 528i. I forgot. So, you might want to check the socket.

**Vik** · 04-25-2007, 08:02 AM

Ok ill try tonight thank you

**c1apton** · 04-27-2007, 10:16 AM

Another thing to make sure of, after validating all brake lts work, use the reset button on right side of dash cluster - that clears the fault codes.

**Vik** · 04-27-2007, 12:47 PM

Thank you, I didn't have time to get to that yet, actually, Im doing this tomorrow, so I appreciate it

good timing