1st Gen R53 Cooper S Most liked posts in thread: Lighting Problem

  1. mrntd

    mrntd Well-Known Member
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    I'll guess you checked fusses. I had a similar problem on a different car. Turned out to be a short from a wire rubbing through a hole in the metal. If you have a volt meter use it to look for the short.

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    Thanks for the welcome! I've checked the fuses and all was good. A short was the next thing that came to mind but I figured with it being the whole right side, it would have to be something that all 4 lights had in common like a relay, the turn signal stalk or BCM. Just hoping to get a better idea of where to start looking going off of the symptoms it's showing. I'll try to get in depth with it this weekend and see if there is a short on the ground for that circuit. Hopefully it will be something simple.