[s-cars] brake light problem

[Kent McLean]

Jerry Scott wrote:
> I was following a friends 94 S4 in Vail at night, when I noticed that 
> when he had the low beams on and cruising on the interstate, the left 
> brake light was on.  When he flipped to the high beams the brake light 
> went out.  Each time he went to the low beams the left brake light would 
> come on.  I'm guessing this is the known problem of the wiring harness 
> breaking at the trunk hinge.  Has anyone seen this before any maybe have 
> a fix?  The car has about 160k miles.

Were the fog lights on?  Audis (and lots of European cars) make
one rear tail light go bright when the fog lights are on.  My
guess is that, when the highs go on, the fogs go out and that
rear "fog" light goes out with them.

-- 
Kent McLean
'94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke