Brake lights staying on? 2012 Si

[AlienPrime]

Hey guys... so i have a weird signal issue of some sort i can't manage to diagnose...

I recently changed my brake bulbs because i had some cheaper 2 filament style LED's in there. Now noticing after i swapped the LED's, the center brake light stays illuminated when i have headlights on and for some odd reason there is a much smaller diffrential in power output from lights on to braking. Almost un-noticable... it looks like im driving around with brakes on.....

Help?

 

[webby]

So you had led and went to another new led? Link to the type you installed?

 

[AlienPrime]

T20 7443 both times just LED's started burning on the first because it was an under-rated heatsink

 

[AlienPrime]

solved this issue if anyone ever runs into it in the future. It was a little more work than i had expected. Had to take the dash apart. Capacitor C8890 or C8980 (forget and didnt write it) was actually blown. Turns out i slightly exceeded the secondary current and it was pulling it anyways once i switched on the headlights. Turns out the car was throwing a code somehow and bipassed directly to third brake light. Didnt help me solve the issue much. But yeah, solved now...

 

[ron v]

Damn. Sounds like u did some digging. Thanks for giving us the solution.