ohforester

Problems started 2 days ago. Car goes in to dealer Monday.

With lights off, front parking lights come on with brake lights.

Cruise will not light up when turned on, or if it does you can not set it.

After driving several miles the ABS and VDC lights come on.

My Ultragauge is not showing any codes- maybe it only shows engine codes and not ABS codes?

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2009 Forester 2.5x AT Silver Steel
Premium pkg.

dpm

faulty bulb at the rear, or a bad ground.

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2009 SH XCdiesel 6MT

ohforester

Thread Starter

Thanks dpm!

I realized the the problem was only there with lights on. Checked the tail lights- passenger side tail and brake lights o.k. Driver side only had a dim tail light- no brake light.

Replaced the bulb and fixed the problem. Never would have believed a bulb could cause that. But the bulb has a filament for tail light and a separate one for brake light so if a filament breaks and connects to the other filament, the computer senses that brakes are on all the time. Sound logical?

Thanks again.

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2009 Forester 2.5x AT Silver Steel
Premium pkg.

dpm

precisely.

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2009 SH XCdiesel 6MT