Whilst fitting the rear wiper I noticed that the number plate lights were flickering on (and mostly) off .

Played around a bit more and noticed that when I started the car for a few secs the high level brake light, low level brake lights and number plate lights were all flickering like a disco - then settled down but no number plate lights.

I am thinking dodgy connection, initially on the upper tailgate loom but once I saw the lower lights flickering maybe on the whole rear loom?

Anyone seen this before, any thoughts (and it has just had a new battery fitted so not that )

Cheers,

MM

You need to fill in your car profile or else we have to guess what car you have , have you or anyone else fitted LED bulbs ? 2008 MY Supercharged
Rimini Red / Jet
four zone climate
remote park heater
and no ugly kid windows.
magnus satis quod turpis satis

If you have LED number plate lights then they may be trying to catch fire like mine tried to and also confuse the crap out of your LCM if not toast it

Good point on the profile, forgot to update when I bought the FFRR (it's a 2006 TD6 BTW)

Yes PO has fitted LED number plate lights - I take it this can cause problems then? Is it a resistance thing like on LED indicator bulbs?

Cheers,

MM 2011 TDV8 AB
2006 TD6 AB (Gone to Wales)

LED's have to be canbus error free and /or with a resistor ( not sure if it's both or one or other , never fitted to mine) and the cold monitoring can be turned off with an iiD Tool . if you are getting deliberate set flashes each time you start up it is just cold monitoring . When I had LED main beams I just let it because it never bothered me . 2008 MY Supercharged
Rimini Red / Jet
four zone climate
remote park heater
and no ugly kid windows.
magnus satis quod turpis satis

The LCM causes the lights to flash but in my case i was getting all sorts of dashboard lighting errors but none relating to the rear number plate light but i decided to check mine and they had started to burn.

The LCM / canbus checks for a resistance and so as the LED has less resistance than conventional bulbs the canbus type have a resistor added which if poorly done cause cause excessive heat.

Have a look at my twins problem

https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/str...04.270960/

Thanks for the input, I am not getting any errors at all on IID but will pop the number plate lights out and inspect/swap and report back

Cheers,

MM 2011 TDV8 AB
2006 TD6 AB (Gone to Wales)

it is worth a look, all my errors were on the dashboard display but mine is an old 04