[urq] (no subject)

[dgraber460 at aol.com]

New URQ drama. Not really too dramatic but anyway......
This morning I'm cruising down the road at 2 below the limit being a good boy, and a patrol turns right about 1/4 mile up the road. Right behind him another car pulls out in front of me without stopping for his red light. I ignore both and continue on my way. The patrol car starts slowing down, and I surmise he is going to duck behind the other car and get him for a red light violation. Nope! Slows down, ducks right in behind me and turns his lights on. When he approaches the car I have all the normal paperwork ready, and he tells me he pulled me over for a right tail light out. He goes back to the patrol car per usual to check me for "wants & warrants", after which he comes back and warns me to fix the light. I'm thinking to myself that there was no way he could have known the light was out until he pulled me over. He was NEVER behind me until his lights were on.
No ticket and no problem, just very odd! Later going back on the same road I saw another older Audi pulled over and was wondering if they were looking for a perp in an old Audi for something else?
Anyway - so I get home and try to check the offending right tail light and sure enough it's out. As I start checking, I find that I only 7.5-8 volts at both tail lights, so the left is pretty dim as well. Is that the light switch on the dash causing this and I just need to relay the tail lights like I have the headlights? Since the battery is just ahead of the bulkhead it would n't take all that much to do it.
Any usual suspects or fixes/workarounds?
TIA


Dennis 
Denver