Brake light on at startup

[dtrail7a]

Anybody have any dea why when I start the car the brake light on the instrument cluster is on? Turns off as soon as I drive off every time. TIA

 

[nhcowboy28]

Do you set the EPB when you last stopped or did you stop the car by pressing the power before pressing park?

 

[WRXtoStingerGT]

Anybody have any dea why when I start the car the brake light on the instrument cluster is on? Turns off as soon as I drive off every time. TIA

Your gauge-cluster looks much newer and fancier than mine... wow lmfao

I never saw that error message before... idk if it's an error message though... do you have the "P" button locked in or pressed down?

 

[vipeboy2000]

what they said above.. but also, if you park on an incline it will auto engage parking break as well. The reason it goes away when you start driving is because epb is auto disengaged when you start moving. Just need to sort out which of the auto engage features is being used to set it in the first place.

 

[dtrail7a]

Thanks. I am parking on a slight incline. I push the P for park every time before shutting off the car.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Heh? Mine does that all the time. I also engage the EPB every time I park.

 

[ShannonC]

It's normal behaviour regardless of whether you engage EPB with or without selecting P. Selecting P only will automatically engage EPB.

 

[dtrail7a]

It's normal behaviour regardless of whether you engage EPB (Electronic Parking Brake) with or without selecting P. Selecting P only will automatically engage EPB (Electronic Parking Brake).

It's because I just started using auto hold. If you shut the engine off with auto hold on it applies the epb. That's why it just started happening. Found it in the manual today. Thx for the info.