I have a ford focus 2002  1.6 lx automatic. I am disabled and need my car for hospital appointments. Came back home in the dark tonight, I saw my rear lights were very bright. I stopped to check and found the brake lights were permanently on both left and right and high rise light all on, but the number plate fog and reverse lights were all out. I have only had the car a couple of weeks, and any help on this matter would be of great help. many thanks in advance.

13 hours ago, cyclone2259 said:

I have a ford focus 2002  1.6 lx automatic. I am disabled and need my car for hospital appointments. Came back home in the dark tonight, I saw my rear lights were very bright. I stopped to check and found the brake lights were permanently on both left and right and high rise light all on, but the number plate fog and reverse lights were all out. I have only had the car a couple of weeks, and any help on this matter would be of great help. many thanks in advance.

The switch on the brake pedal needs to be replaced as it appears to be stuck in the on position.

I had an Escort which had brake light keep coming on. The brake light switch above pedal kept coming out of place which meant that switch was on . brake light switch is on if the pedal is not pushing the plunger in to turn it off. So on mine the problem was not the switch itself it was the plastic bit that held the switch in place.  So don't simply buy a new switch without first checking the problem.

Other lights - have you checked the bulbs?  

Have you checked the brake light problem still occurs with the side lights turned off?  (I aske just in case it's a tail light / brake light double filament bulb not in place properly and bridging the terminals in the holder which sometimes happens and causes odd things

4 hours ago, DJ_Andy_M said:

The switch on the brake pedal needs to be replaced as it appears to be stuck in the on position.

Found the problem the switch had come off the metal bracket, just put it back in turned it till it clicked in place and was all working again as it should. Thank you for all your comments it helped me,

a lot bulbs were ok