Brake Light Message on Dashboard?!

[BMHBMW]

Hello!

I recently replaced my left rear tail light, and everything went fine. No errors nothing. Brake Light worked fine.

I recently opened up my trunk and noticed that the cover that protects the light housing unit was not secured properly. I put it back in its place and now when I start my car I get a light bulb with a exclamation point. Note: All lights work. Any ideas here? Nothing seems loose and it appears that all the lights work?! Is there a way to reset?

Thanks for your time

[mryakan]

Are you sure your brake light is working? How about the brake lights that come only under hard braking. Those are tough to detect if out or not connected.

[BMHBMW]

Thanks for the reply. How do I ensure that everything is connected? I just find it odd that after I put the cover on in the trunk that this light turns on now?? Just strange?

[mryakan]

You may have tweaked something and cause the connectors to be misaligned. Do a search, there was a recent post where someone ran into a similar problem, it may help you.

[NFerber]

Do the E9x models suffer the poor grounding on the rear lights as the E46 models did? Because that could be the issue too.