Centre stop light
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bethnalgreenboy, if your normal brake lights are still working, then odds are you have bad bulbs in the centre light. So, you will need to access it and then replace the bulbs. The only other possibility is that you have a bad wire, but that would be at the brake light itself and will take pretty much the same work as replacing the bulbs.
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The third brake light uses LEDs, not incandescent bulbs, so bulbs are not the issue. My wife's 2002 X-Type also has a non-functioning 3rd brake light at the roof - I used to be able to get it to function by tapping on the roof but that does not seem to work any more. I suspect a loose connector but do not know where that connector is located. Any help with that location?
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The high mount stop lamp is only replaced as an assembly. The leds are not serviceable. You will need to drop down the rear of the headliner to remove the two screws to remove the assembly. You can pop off the D pillars then remove the rear grab handles and lower the back of the liner enough to access it.
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Thanks for this but the problem cited both by the original poster and by me is not that one or more LEDs are out. The problem is that there are no lights in that unit working at all. In the case of my car it is almost certainly a poor connection since the unit used to work intermittently, and when it worked, all lights were illuminated. I suspect that in both cases we are looking at a loose connection, so the question is, where is the connector? Does anyone have this information (it is probably not located at the light unit itself, but at a position more remote - one of the C pillars?)?
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Thanks for this but the problem cited both by the original poster and by me is not that one or more LEDs are out. The problem is that there are no lights in that unit working at all. In the case of my car it is almost certainly a poor connection since the unit used to work intermittently, and when it worked, all lights were illuminated. I suspect that in both cases we are looking at a loose connection, so the question is, where is the connector? Does anyone have this information (it is probably not located at the light unit itself, but at a position more remote - one of the C pillars?)?
Plug seems to rest within the fixture. Please see the photo below. I would venture to say the connections are brittle from the sun hitting the roof all the time.
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