After a long winter pause from cars and tinkering the garage doors are once again opened for business… So after connecting up the battery on the little sleeping lotus the brake lights are now staying on. When i lift the brake pedal with my toe there is couple of mm play and the brake lights go off. Let the pedal fall to its normal resting position and they flicker and stay on.
Sounds like a dodgy switch to me… but try and find the blighter. After getting stuck under the steering wheel with my torch i found out there is nothing to see. the pedals disappear through an alum plate. And from under the bonnet in the area of the master cylinders there are loads of stange valve thingies…seemingly above the pivot axis of the pedals.
So i ask you my clever exige friends, where is the brake light activator switch? Ans how do I get to it to check it?
The switch is accessible from under the bonnet. I adjusted mine once, a few years ago. I can’t remember exactly how to find it, but you should be able to locate it by reaching in behind the brake fluid reservoir. The position of the switch is adjustable. A quick twist will unlock it, then you can push it in or out and twist the other way to lock it back in place.
The switch is under the dash and operates from the pedal so you have to look a bit harder I’m afraid
“The switch is accessible from under the bonnet. I adjusted mine once, a few years ago”[/quote]
OK lads, this is confusing… should I try my Houdini contortion trick or get under the bonnet… Either way, armed with these two possibilities I will certainly solve the location problem. thank you’s
I crawled under the dash to fix mine. Given how fun it is to get under there head/body facing UP towards the switch, have your faithful deputy stand behind the car & call out whether the lights are on or not - splicing in a current tester is more bother.
![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/AndrewDovey/bl.jpg[/image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/AndrewDovey/bl.jpg%5B/image%5D){kind=link}