Glad to hear you got it fixed mate - as I said the ECU's are normally fine. You can put the brake lights out by substituting a restistor where the pads would go - just keep the wires off the old pads so you can solder the resistor on. I'll look the resistor values up when I get a moment.

As I said - it's very rare that the ECUs are at fault if the lights are still working.

Re you getting a new car - I didn't mean you I was talking to safechav who seemed to think it's unreasonable that 25 year old cars come with archaic electronics