RE: [alfa] No Brake Lights On '91 164S

["Jeff Greenfield" <alfaguy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don -

Thanks, that was our second stop after checking and replacing the switch.
The relay is getting power, is switching when the brake pedal is pushed, and
sending +12v out the other side. So the problem is definitely after this
point.

Thanks,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-alfa@domain.elided [mailto:owner-alfa@domain.elided] On Behalf Of
DAEGRIGG
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:40 AM
To: Rex Cars
Cc: alfa@domain.elided
Subject: Re: [alfa] No Brake Lights On '91 164S

Rex,

If all lights are out, it is probably the relay that is located behind the
false firewall in the engine bay.  You should also check out the brake pedal
switch.  Based on my own experience

Don

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rex Cars" <rexcars@domain.elided>
To: <alfa@domain.elided>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:37 PM
Subject: [alfa] No Brake Lights On '91 164S


> All three brake lights (CHMSL and both corner lights) are out on my 1991
> 164S.  There is power to and from the pedal switch, from there to the
relay
> (which goes "click" when the brake pedal is pressed) and from there to the
> Alfa Romeo Control Panel, which lights up the "bulb out" lamp when the
brake
> pedal is pushed (thanks, Jeff!).  I have verified that the fuse (number
15)
> is OK. Pulling this fuse makes the "bulb out" lamp glow all the time.
>
> Unless I have an very strange open circuit somewhere, all of this suggests
> that the Alfa Romeo Control Panel is bad.  There is another little control
> box for the outer two stop lamps (its job seems to be to keep the AR
Control
> Panel from becoming upset when the turn signal flashes, which apparently
> uses the same circuit as the brake light).  Turn signals and quarter lamps
> work fine, as to the 4-way flashers.  But the CHMSL bypasses this second
box
> and is apparently illuminated directly from the AR Control Panel itself
> (since it doesn't get power from the turn signal circuits).  When the
CHMSL
> doesn't light, as is the case on my car, the manual suggests that the AR
> Control Panel is bad.
>
> I don't want to hear that. Has anyone been here who can offer some useful
> suggestions?
>
> If not, I guess I will pull the smaller control box and see if it is
getting
> power from the AR Control Panel, but why wouldn't the CHMSL light if power
> was coming out of the AR Control Panel?
>
> Thanks,
> Rex in Albany
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