Re: Tail Lights Keep Shorting Out

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

Andrew Finney wrote:
> As a possibly related note, cruise control, which grounds
> through the brake lights, is great, but every-once-in-a-while
> (like every 2 hours of continous driving) it goes bananas and
> lets up on the pedal and then down on the pedal. Could there
> be a bizzare intermittant tailight ground problem? Anyone have
> a BTDT.
> 
> I used to have a problem with the tailights shutting off the
> cruise control and blinking dimly. This was caused by black
> dots on the MAS connector that were actually carbon traces
> right through the spade terminal, negating proper connections.

On a related theme, the main trouble I have with my (82 coupe) cc
nowadays is my brake lights connections going south - and, as you say,
the cc module is dependent on a circuit running to the hot side of the
brake lights - why, who knows.  Why should the cruise not work if both
your brake lights are out?

I too have seen those little black dots, any idead as to how to cure
that problem, besides buying new socket/connector assemblies?  I don't
really want to reengineer the whole mess and build my own connectors to
the tail light assemblies... but I will if I have to.

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Huw Powell
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