my handbrake light has stopped coming on when the handbrake is pulled up. Can you buy replacement bulbs for that?

or is the problem likely to be elsewhere?

the connection at the handbrake seems ok.

(mot is within a month, is this a fail?)

cheers

You dont get a bulb come on with a handbrake, only the FOOT brake.

You dont get a bulb come on with a handbrake, only the FOOT brake.

Something wrong with your car then mate. When I pull the handbrake on mine the ((!)) light comes on on the dash.

Nugget:

all the icon bulbs in the cluster are the same. There are a couple of unused ones (IIRC there's a choke warning, and, as you're petrol, the glow-plugs one would do). Either way (new or pinched from another) you'll need to take the cluster out, which means taking the large black part of the dash out too. Not a hard job, just a bit fiddly.

Edited 15 May, 201214 yr by RainbowFore

Something wrong with your car then mate. When I pull the handbrake on mine the ((!)) light comes on on the dash.

Indeed there is. Blonde moment + arguing with SWMBO = Fail reply

Thanks il give that a go see if i can get it working...

Indeed there is. Blonde moment + arguing with SWMBO = Fail reply

Did you win? ;)

Did you win? ;)

Naturally SWMBO thinks she did

People always seem to mix up the fact the Felicia has a light for the brake fluid warning (!) and another for the handbrake (P)

My Dad's car shouts at you if you try and drive with the handbrake still on. 'BEEP BEEP BEEP! HANDBRAKE ON!' Quite handy when I was learning to drive in it mind :p

My Dad's car shouts at you if you try and drive with the handbrake still on. 'BEEP BEEP BEEP! HANDBRAKE ON!' Quite handy when I was learning to drive in it mind :p

if your handbrake is good and fully on, that alarm is a joke.

unless you don't care about rear smoking tires screeching the asphalt, running at 10mph and engine boiling...

fixed it now, swapped the bulb over with one that isn't used. (it was the (p) i was referring to)

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Cool. Not the quickest of jobs in relation to what you end up changing.

if your handbrake is good and fully on, that alarm is a joke.

unless you don't care about rear smoking tires screeching the asphalt, running at 10mph and engine boiling...

It does it if it's fully on or even slightly on. Let's face it though, most people are stupid and would probably think there was something drastically at fault with the car rather than something drastically wrong with their memory/common sense/ability to drive a car.

Driving off with the handbrake still applied is very commonplace..I see it every day in my job, with skilled drivers too.

Clues as to something being amiss soon mount up.

not a problem!

However, I would not have wasted my precious time and effort replacing the bulb [especially if all the plastic doesn't go back quite the same way?]....what did we all do before some bright spark decided we needed a handbrake light, FFS?

My sidelights-on warning light went pop two years or more ago....darned if I'm spending a Sunday morning digging out the dashboard for that one....especially as the whole car goes berserk if I open a door with the lights still on!

Mandatory warning lights [for MoT] are indyflators, main beam, and have-you-been-to-the-toilet-before-you-set-off warning lights.

I would advise also having a battery light and a oily pressure light, for peace-of-mind.....the rest are bling, or 'spare bulbs'...[delete as necessary?}