Returning home last night, I passed a parked up police car, nothing wrong with that, you see them most days.
Further along my way, I noticed in my mirror, this car rapidly getting closer, did'nt think much of it, untill they flashed the blue whirlies.
I pulled over and got out of the car, (I knew I was'nt speeding, co's thats naughty  ::))
They asked if I knew my high level brake light was'nt working, I said no I did'nt know, (me now thinking, is it law that because it's fitted it must work ?). So basically, they pulled me over to let me know, I said I'd get it sorted, and let me on my way.

Now, because it's a row of led's, surely they can't have all blown, I've looked in the fuse layout in the hand book to see if it's a seperate fuse  :-/  anyone know the first place to look/check before the car gets stripped down  :o ?

Regards.... Carper  ;)

Pull it down and check the conection, also check its getting 12v when the brake pedal is pressed for starters.

As Dazzler suggest pull the unit down there is a connector that may have worked loose I had this no my last one  :y

As an aside, can a high level lamp be retro-fitted to an earlier model like mine?
IW

Sorted  :y cheers guy's, bad connection.

Pitchfork wrote on 28. Sep 2007 at 15:14:

As an aside, can a high level lamp be retro-fitted to an earlier model like mine? IW

Don't see any reason why not. Bear in mind though that the shaded area of the screens are different around the light.

Pitchfork wrote on 28. Sep 2007 at 15:14:

As an aside, can a high level lamp be retro-fitted to an earlier model like mine? IW

I noticed you drive an estate, do you mean like this .........


http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j78/worthie/2.jpg

this one is on the bay for (buy it now) ...£14.95

maybe you can get one cheaper from the breakers.  :y

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-OMEGA-ESTATE-THIRD-BRAKE-LIGHT_W0QQitemZ260164920242QQihZ016QQcategoryZ10404QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

That's the one but can it be fitted retrospectively to an earlier car???

On my saloon, it looks possible as inner trim is the same but as said, I noticed the dark area on the glass is different so didn't pursue it further.

In the end I went for a cheap aftermarket one which glues to the top of the windscreen - and occasionally comes loose. You'll need to feed the wires down to the main brake wiring and splice it in. Works for me although admittedly not so neat.

I know yours is an estate but I fitted one to my last saloon and that did not have the space i the black shading . And the light was visible throught it. It went through the MOT with no problems . I did try to remove some of the black shading but had no luck doing this  

LFF64 wrote on 02. Oct 2007 at 18:57:

I know yours is an estate but I fitted one to my last saloon and that did not have the space i the black shading . And the light was visible throught it. It went through the MOT with no problems . I did try to remove some of the black shading but had no luck doing this

Hi level brake light has nothing to do with an MOT ;)