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Your right brake light is not the same bulb as your rear running light that comes on with the headlights. Different bulbs. Your right brake light is simply burnt out or has worked its way out of the connection. Take it to Advance Auto Parts. They may even change it for you. Not a big problem.
If one side is working, but the other two locations are not, that would indicate a working brake lamp switch, and a likely problem with the wiring or the bulb sockets for these two lamps. Take a simple 12V test lamp and probe the positive side of these lamps while someone is pressing the brake pedal. If the test lamp remains unlit then you have an open in the wiring to the lamps. If the light illuminates but you still have no brake lamps then the ground is likely open. You could test this theory by providing a temporary ground to each lamp and retesting. Bulbs are fairly simple devices - they only require power and ground to work, so you are missing one or the other. If you determine you have an open power or ground to the bulb you will have to trace the wiring back through the harness and repair the break in the wire.
You can try to replace all the brake lamp bulbs as sometimes eventhough all bulbs are working but one of them is about to blow and give high resistance. That's why the brake lamp lights up.
You most deffinatly have a dead short, thank god for fuses. You will need to chase all realated wires , look for a bare spot in a wire thats touching something metal. Good luck
Many of the front and rear lamps are actually two bulbs in one. If you look at the bulb it will have two filaments inside. One for lights and the other is for the turn lights and/or brake lights.
If one of the filaments is broken, you can usually flick the bulb, and see the broken filament shake.
The problem could be a bad connection, or a number of other things, but go ahead and replace the bulb first.
(If you really want to know, you can switch the left and right side bulbs, and see if the problem moves with the bulb.)
In that car the fuse for the rear lights is also the same fuse for the dash lights. They did that so you would know when your tail light were out. Replace the fuse.
Look on the inside of the liftgate and you'll spot a plastic trim
panel/piece directly behind the High Mount brake light. Gently pry this
piece off and you'll have access to the bulb and socket.
Looks as though you have earthing problems.
I would make sure that the earthing is O.K on flasher and brake.
You would then find your symptom disappear.
If by the "cyclops light" you mean the third brake light, I went to auto zone and purchased 6 ea. part number 858352 instrument panel connectors and added number 194 bulbs to them. All you have to do is pull (gently) on the cover and it will come off. It snaps in place. Twist the bulbs 1/4 turn ccw to remove, insert new assembly and voila, you're in business. The other brake lights are behind the carpet in the trunk. Be sure to remove the correct bulb or you will replace the turn/marker lamp and still have a brake light out. Good Luck.
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