Dash lights, parker lights turn on when braking. feck!!!

[mk3_7m]

Well this just started happening just recently, at first I thought I was tripping out until I turned off the car with my foot still resting on the brake pedal and the dash lights were still on :O and looking at the reflection of my house window the front parker lights were on along with it.

I think it happened after changing one of the dead light bulbs on the LHS tail light, so to test things out I pulled off the plug from that light and pressed on the brake again to see if lights up again and yeah it didn't light up and pluged it back in to see if the problem would come back again which it did.

I don't have a multi-meter with me anymore -.-. is it a bad ground/short I should look out for? I checked the housing for corroded ground points and so far nothing (might have to check again incase I put the wrong bulb in or missed something)

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Scruggs86.5T]

Maybe some corrosion in a bulb socket or the tail and brake wire shorted together on that light housing. I would just pull the back housing from that side out of the car and go over it with a fine tooth comb. Clean out the sockets with some alcohol and q-tips. Check and make sure all the bulbs are the right bulbs, and then go through the wiring making sure that there isnt any bare wire coming through the insulation. Good luck with it.

 

[supraslow!]

Had this same problem, it was as mentioned above the bulbs one of my bulbs were dual connection not single connection so check the bulbs first

 

[mk3_7m]

^^ yeah turned out that was the problem. Thanks guys. Your help was appreciated.