Lights light comes on

[Carol L Barron]

We bought a 1991 Camry LE6 4-door sedan in 1997. It had 91,000 miles on it and came without an Owner's Manual. Now it has gone 169,000 miles. Yesterday a yellow message saying Lights appeared on the instrument panel.

What does it mean, and what should I do about it?

TIA
Carol

[Nick]

check your tail lights, brake lights, and turn signals

[odbII]

With they key on, turn on your lights all the way. If the indicator lights up then your parking light(s) is out. If it doesn't light up then step on your brake pedal and see if it lights up if it does then one of the brake lamps are out.

[Carol L Barron]

Thank you both very much for responding to my plea for help. The situation was resolved only yesterday, Feb 20, which is why I have not replied to you earlier.

The short answer is that my husband replaced the high stop light bulb and the "lights" light seems to have shut itself off for good. (My fingers are crossed.)

When we got your responses we checked out the lights, or at least thought we did. All lights seemed to be working, but we forgot about the brake light in the rear window. When we found that it was off, a day later. Jerry went and got a new bulb in anticipation of replacing the old one.

When a warm enough day to work outside for a few minutes came around, the problem had fixed itself! The idot light in question had stopped coming on. Then, after two days, it reappeared.

At that point hubby reasoned that there was a short in the wiring and owned up to a lack of knowing how to take care of that. I pressed the case for the bulb being bad somehow.

Jerry went out to the car, took off the hood from the stop light, and discovered that I was right! The glass was loose inside the brass base. He extracted the old one and inserted the new. Presumably, we'll no longer have an intermittent problem.

Thanks, again, for getting back to us so quickly and for insisteing that the idiot-light system was worth taking seriously.

Carol L Barron
Springfield, VA 22150