My handbrake light warning light stays on
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mrmora
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My handbrake light warning light stays on
After I start my car and let it warm up for a bit, I release the handbrake and start to drive, but the handbrake warning light stays on for a while and then shuts off. Is this light a multifunctional light, meaning that it also comes on to let me know that the brakes, or fluid level is low? Could this just be a faulty handbrake warning switch?
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ARCHINSTL
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Re: My handbrake light warning light stays on
Check your brake fluid - NOW!
I don't think anyone has mentioned a faulty brake lever switch.
Tom M.
I don't think anyone has mentioned a faulty brake lever switch.
Tom M.
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"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit."
T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
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marlinh
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Re: My handbrake light warning light stays on
Agreed, it is probably a low fluid situation.
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dlb
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Re: My handbrake light warning light stays on
don't drive it until you confirm the brake fluid level is good. if it's low, you need to find where you're leaking brake fluid and fix it asap. you don't want to be driving if you can't stop. my guess is it's probably the rear wheel cylinders but check all the steel lines, rubber hoses, master cylinder, etc--everything.