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This suggests that it's on the top of the head unit.

I had an issue where the outer high level brake light LEDs were faintly illuminated all the time. Not obvious during the day but noticed one night. After a little investigation I found that the connectors near the CD changer were wet. It wasn't the usual washer pipe problem and I assumed it may have been the water that always seems to run off the hatch and into the boot when its been raining. I dried it all up and cleaned the green fuzz off the connectors and all was good again. More care is now taken when opening the hatch to minimise how much water runs into the car by opening part way and waiting for the water to run off into the channels either side before opening all the way.

I got a light on mine when the EGR was disconnected (removed vacuum line). Didn't come on straight away though. I get a little hesitation under light acceleration which I believe is my EGR as when I disable it, the hesitation stops. I had EGR insuffiecient flow which I fixed using a second hand vacuum solenoid unit which is what i now think is causing the hesitation.

I chased an EGR fault for months and it ended up being the vacuum control solenoid. I changed it for a second hand unit and not had the warning light back for approx a year now. The EGR fault I had was insufficient flow.

To steal an idea from someone else.....

I have decided that my particular fault was the vacuum solenoid. I have done many miles and all is still well in the Octy. I believe that the vacuum solenoid was not delivering enough vacuum to open the EGR valve enough and so throwing up a fault code. I hope this little investigation helps another owner with similar problems. My only real advice is don't buy cheap Chinese EGR valves and don't always assume it's the valve itself. My original one is back on the car and has covered 191,000 miles (allowing for the miles I did with the new one).

Can't beat a good set of TLA's!

Glad it was a simple fix.

Go into the lighting section and make sure marker lights are turned off or 0%. Other than that, I don't know. I gave marker lights a go and it uses the indicators at whatever brightness you set it to. Think they come on if you change the country as well. (Scandinavian or North American mode I think but can't remember).

Have you had a look at darksides website? https://www.darksidedevelopments.co.uk/

Have you had a look at the springs?

It might look odd with the black bump strips going all around the car but not on the rear bumper. I could be wrong and it might look fine. I guess the side ones could be removed to uncover some horror beneath but unsure what you'd do about the front ones unless you facelift the front too but that's a totally different job altogether. Edit to say a pre FL VRS front bumper may fit and that didn't have the bump strips. I know the fog lights are different but no idea what else may be slightly different.

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I used one of these as my ELM adaptor wouldn't fit properly. Not sure its the problem your having but made it much easier to get mine working. Maybe it was just the type of ELM adaptor I got that was the issue but I found it fouled on the opening to the socket and was difficult to get it to connect properly. I got this one which, with the cable, works perfectly with Carista.

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