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Old Mar 8, 2008 | 12:33 AM
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I have a 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 that shows an indicator light on the dash. It say "lamp out", but I've checked every light on this vehicle and they're all burning.
Can anyone help?
 
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Old Mar 8, 2008 | 07:22 AM
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Check headlights, turnsignals front and back, brake lights, reverse lights, fog lights, and license plate illuminators.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2008 | 07:58 AM
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Mine did that right after I got my truck. There were no lights out when the 'Lamp Out' light came on. The next day my brake light went out. I assume it can sense the voltage change or something as the bulb is about to go out.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2008 | 08:11 AM
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My 02 was doing the same thing. It would do it all the time on a bumpy road. It turned out to be a bad connection on the driver side brake light.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2008 | 10:03 AM
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Do yourself a favor and pick up some brake/turn signal bulbs, everytime that mine has done that one finally ended up going out.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2008 | 12:10 PM
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the truck will actually sense the light is going out before it does.
 
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Old Aug 30, 2010 | 09:24 AM
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I have a 2003 dodge ramn 1500 5.7 hemi and the lamp out indicator keeps coming on all my lights work and are on but it will ding come on go out ding come on go out some times it will ding for like five minutes how can i fix this problem?
 
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Old Aug 30, 2010 | 01:23 PM
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Go pull the tail lights out and check the plastic circuit boards. Chances are they are shot as those years had issues with melting and shorting out
 
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Old Aug 30, 2010 | 10:58 PM
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same thing happened to me and i thought everything was good until i had someone press the brake and it didnt get brighter so have someone do that
 
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Old Feb 8, 2011 | 11:27 PM
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I know it probably late but I had the same problem and it was really getting to me. So I was always thinking about it. Then it finally hit me one night when someone flashed their brights at me. So i checked my brights and sure enough one was out.

Hope this helps.
 
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