e46 left tail lights dimmer than right??

A strange one this...

After many months of intermitant warnings on the dash that my RHS tail
light was faulty I had a poke around and dicovered that if a wiggled
the wires entering the connector block for the tail light cluster (not
tail light on boot lid) theey got 50% brighter and the dash warning
light went out, sounds like I fixed it.....great....but NO.

Now the RHS tail lights are brighter than the LHS, I tried swapping
the bulbs over but it made not difference. I've had a go at wiggling
the wires as I did with the RHS but nothing changes.

The wires look in good condition, no scorching or damage of any type.

Has anyone had a similar problem? I suspect theres no simple answer to
this but we can always live in hope.

While I'm here.....my LHS rear fog light does'nt work either.
It's a single filement bulb that brightens when the fog lights are
switched on, the RHS works fine but the LHS just stays dim as it
doubles up as a tail light (not connected to previous tail light
problem).
I thought it may be a LHS problem only so i checked the front fog but
their both working fine, so it just seems that theres no extra power
getting to the rear LHS fog light to make it work.

Any thoughts anyone?

Thanks for reading

k-factor.

similar...
I have had to replace the bulb housing on the right tail so far (it would
show bulb failure intermittently with no bulb failure, restarting the car
would fix it for awhile - common post on e46fanatics.).
and
at one point after that change, the left was dim... I unplugged the socket
and noticed corrosion on the wires, replugged solidly and all is well.

I could not clean the corrosion and one wire was pulling out of the plug, so
now the plug is screwed up on mine and if it fails again I will have to get
it rewired with a new plastic end.

The dealer told me bulb housings were a very commonly changed part on e46.

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>A strange one this...
>
> After many months of intermitant warnings on the dash that my RHS tail
> light was faulty I had a poke around and dicovered that if a wiggled
> the wires entering the connector block for the tail light cluster (not
> tail light on boot lid) theey got 50% brighter and the dash warning
> light went out, sounds like I fixed it.....great....but NO.
>
> Now the RHS tail lights are brighter than the LHS, I tried swapping
> the bulbs over but it made not difference. I've had a go at wiggling
> the wires as I did with the RHS but nothing changes.
>
> The wires look in good condition, no scorching or damage of any type.
>
> Has anyone had a similar problem? I suspect theres no simple answer to
> this but we can always live in hope.
>
> While I'm here.....my LHS rear fog light does'nt work either.
> It's a single filement bulb that brightens when the fog lights are
> switched on, the RHS works fine but the LHS just stays dim as it
> doubles up as a tail light (not connected to previous tail light
> problem).
> I thought it may be a LHS problem only so i checked the front fog but
> their both working fine, so it just seems that theres no extra power
> getting to the rear LHS fog light to make it work.
>
> Any thoughts anyone?
>
> Thanks for reading
>
> k-factor.
>



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