Sc400 Center Brake Light

[centex]

I was "tapped" in the rear the other day at 5 to 10 mph. Little or no damage to the body or bumper. Wow, this would have destroyed a lesser car. I replaced a couple of bulbs in the taillight. I found that the center LED light was not coming on when braking. I applied voltage to the LED array and it is working. My QUESTION is; Why would this lamp not be getting current? Is there a single fuse to this light? Note all other tail lights and brake lights are working. There is a little "Tail light failure" indicator illuminated on the cluster when I turn the lights on; not just when braking. Thanks mucho. Just afraid of being hit again without my center brake light.

[SKperformance]

It is on the trunk lid or inside the car?

[centex]

Light is in the spoiler on the trunk lid. (95 sc400) The wire travels down the passenger side trunk support and into a harness in the front passenger side of the trunk.

Thanks

[jzz30]

my dad's LS was doing this with his tail lights where during night driving, the rear lights would be on as normal and as soon as he hit the brakes a few lights would go dark. we traced this back to several bad grounds on the socket. what i did was pull the wire out that was just pressed against the bulb housing and soldered it directly to the housing this fixed everything. i was lazy and only did only the ones that showed no continuity between the ground wire from the connector to the bulb housing, and the symptoms came back so i had to pull things appart and do the rest.

anyway long story short. you may have a broken ground wire or just plain bad continuity like what i described.