Toyota: Tail light?

I just got a used 93 Camry. I noticed that when I put my foot on the brake
one of my night tail lights goes out. When I let my foot off the brake, it
comes back on. Any answers?

On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:45:43 GMT, someone who calls themselves
"JoAnne" <com> wrote: 
 

If the bulb usually gets brighter because it does both stop and tail
duties, but it goes out totally, it's probably an open ground.

Reason: The tail light power backfeeds through the stop filaments
to the ground on the other side, so that tail filament lights up -
step on the brakes, and there's 12V on both sides of the filaments, so
the ground goes away and the lamp goes out.

Either a dirty lamp to socket connection, or the ground wire for the
taillight is making a bad connection where it is screwed to the body.
If you wiggle the lamp and it works right, it's a dirty socket.

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