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Reply 1
It's probably not a bulb warning light - in the sense that such a thing doesn't exist.

You will have up to four light-shaped symbols on your dash, of which you will have a green one for dip-beam headlights, a blue one for main beam headlights, and possibly a green/orange one for front and rear fog lamps. These are not warning lamps that tell you that something is broken: they are lights to remind you that they are turned on.

~Matt
Original post by danty
It's probably not a bulb warning light - in the sense that such a thing doesn't exist.

You will have up to four light-shaped symbols on your dash, of which you will have a green one for dip-beam headlights, a blue one for main beam headlights, and possibly a green/orange one for front and rear fog lamps. These are not warning lamps that tell you that something is broken: they are lights to remind you that they are turned on.

~Matt


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http://www.e90post.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=84948&stc=1&d=1183509945

not my dashboard but a couple of examples of the light I was talking about. It's called the bulb check light or bulb warning light.

Don't worry I know that the other light symbols are for, i'm not a female :wink:


edit: I've tested everything which has a light and narrowed it down to the side lights. Is it possible that they put the wrong type of bulb in?
(edited 9 years ago)
Reply 3
Original post by blue n white army
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http://www.e90post.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=84948&stc=1&d=1183509945

not my dashboard but a couple of examples of the light I was talking about. It's called the bulb check light or bulb warning light.

Don't worry I know that the other light symbols are for, i'm not a female :wink:


edit: I've tested everything which has a light and narrowed it down to the side lights. Is it possible that they put the wrong type of bulb in?


A quick check online told me that the Punto check light bulb only illuminates on the side light circuit. They could have put the wrong power bulb in, but check your number plate lights too, just in case.

Ask them which lights they changed if you don't know already, then replace them with the correct specification ones for your car.
Reply 4
Original post by danty
It's probably not a bulb warning light - in the sense that such a thing doesn't exist.


Well it certainly does on my '94 Daimler !
Reply 5
Does the car have the electrics for a tow ball installed? If so a short of some sort may be causing that light to come on when the side lights are on. When we plug anything into the socket on my dads car it gets a bulb failed warning light because the lightboard or caravan hasn't got a fog light installed. Equally a trailer symbol appears on the dash just to say something is plugged in. No idea what the Punto version is.
Reply 6
It's the same on my sons car and it's intermittent. Only comes on when driving so if its to say your lights are on surely it would come on when engine stopped or it would be on permanently. The book also says its a exterior bulb fault
Reply 7
Original post by 1878cmj
It's the same on my sons car and it's intermittent. Only comes on when driving so if its to say your lights are on surely it would come on when engine stopped or it would be on permanently. The book also says its a exterior bulb fault

This thread is 5 years old mate.

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