Without any model/year info, I’m only guessing, but a TDI will only have 3 earth connections on that circuit. One is the front inner arch, the second is the rear tub, last one is the tell tale. Check and clean both “outside” earth points, I don’t think this is a tell tale issue.
Once cleaned, run a piece of wire from each earth point back to the battery neg, but do each earth one at a time. When you find the one at fault, wire in a new earth.