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Re: Spitfire Tail Light Problems

To: John Baker <dmjbaker@netzero.net>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Spitfire Tail Light Problems
From: Dave Chu <dave@ece.concordia.ca>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 22:07:16 -0400


In message <39838854.C5B5F667@netzero.net>you write:
>
>My tail lights on my 1978 Spitfire are always on even when I have the
>light switch off.  I thought that it was the brake lights so I replaced
>the brake light switch but it did not help.  All the other lights on the
>car work perfectly.  Does anyone know where I can go from here?  I am
>not even sure how to debug the problem.  It is the original wiring so I
>do not think that it could be a crossed wire?

   It might not be the brake lights but the parking lights that are on 
   all the time.  You should check the head light switch, it might
   be defective and keeping the parking lights on all the time.


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