bypassing "brake lamp" indicator

[CB7xTURBO]

my brake light indicator is lit.. not the "brake" light, the "brake lamp" indicator on the gauge cluster where the diagram of the car shows which door is open and if the trunk is open..

i saw a post recently about the brown box.. well i removed the white/green wire and put it to ground and the indicator is still on.. and i saw that there is a wire that is white with green stripe (the one i did) and there is green with white stripe..

how exactly do i bypass this? and what did i do wrong?

thanks guys

[busak87]

I would like to know this too...My brake lamp indicator is always on...what does it even mean when its on?

all my brake lights work, none are broken so Im not sure what its trying to tell me lol...

[CB7xTURBO]

I would like to know this too...My brake lamp indicator is always on...what does it even mean when its on?

all my brake lights work, none are broken so Im not sure what its trying to tell me lol...

right lol its on for no reason.. well i heard something about the brown box or whatever.. and also the contacts of the bulbs might be dirty or whatever lol

[CB7xTURBO]

anyone?

[Luis]

i would like to know as well.. when i turn on my car all is well.. then as soon as i hit my brake the stupid indicator comes on!

[scudweiser]

on the drivers side brown box you just need to splice the white wire with the green stripe into the solid black wire. after you cut the white/green wire did you splice in the side coming from the brown box or coming from the larger connector on the harness? i spliced in the wire coming from the harness and left the one coming from the box capped off and my dash light hasnt come on since.

[CB7xTURBO]

i did it from box.. can u show me a picture please? thanks bro

[scudweiser]

i just tried to take a pic, but since its dark out here it didnt come out that well on my cell phone. splice in the harness side wire instead and you should be good. how did you secure it, wire nut? solder?

[CB7xTURBO]

i originally spliced it to black wire but brake lamp indicator was still on so i put it on a ground with a nut.. so pretty much much it has to be like this

lol im just gonna try and make a little diagram sort of.. square is brown box

original:
[]-----harness

how i have it:
[]--->to ground |----harness

how i should have it:
[]---| to ground<----harness

the ">" and "<" means its the one connected on ground lol

[scudweiser]

exactly, now get that annoying light out!

[CB7xTURBO]

yup thanks i will

[wagonkid]

I see im not the only one with that problem my brake light indicator started the samething last week .I was wondering how to fix that.

[hmchaos]

same here, but i was afraid to start cutting/splicing. will i still be warned of actual brake lights that really out? or does this just disable the light?

[scudweiser]

this hack completely disables the indicator light

[AndyD]

I see I am not the only one with this issue.