Thread: "Side Light" Dash light.

Side lights are usually what we in the colonies call parking lights.

Does the green light go out when the engine is running?

Nup it stays on at all times, engine running, full lights (not just parkers) ...

its not annoying or anything just wanted to see if it was a fault !?

It's just the warning light to tell you your lights are on.

Ron

Originally Posted by p38arover

It's just the warning light to tell you your lights are on.

Ron

BUT, you only notice it at night.......just after you notice that your lights are on........lol

Originally Posted by byron

BUT, you only notice it at night.......just after you notice that your lights are on........lol

In Oz, that's probably true. But in grey, cloudy, old Britain it's probably visible all the time!

Originally Posted by p38arover

In Oz, that's probably true. But in grey, cloudy, old Britain it's probably visible all the time!

Or you need better glasses

Tombraider

Mine comes on and stays on with parking lights/headlights. I thought it was showing me that the lights are working but they came on even whe the lights had failed.

Another thing you might find weird is the flickers. They have a strange relationship with the towbar wiring. So they'll flash once and then stop if your trailer lights aren't working. Only sometimes they'll flash once and stop even though you don't have a trailer and you get out and find all flickers on the car are fine. Then the "phantom trailer" will start working properly again and you wonder if some moisture got into the trailer plug but then you realise to don't wonder about these things becasue down that path lies madness.

Originally Posted by JamesH

Mine comes on and stays on with parking lights/headlights. I thought it was showing me that the lights are working but they came on even whe the lights had failed.

Another thing you might find weird is the flickers. They have a strange relationship with the towbar wiring. So they'll flash once and then stop if your trailer lights aren't working. Only sometimes they'll flash once and stop even though you don't have a trailer and you get out and find all flickers on the car are fine. Then the "phantom trailer" will start working properly again and you wonder if some moisture got into the trailer plug but then you realise to don't wonder about these things becasue down that path lies madness.

That sounds like your "Trailer"light....it does behave EXACTLY as you describe.....I think you may have misunderstood