Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches? TIA!
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Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches? TIA!
Hey PileDriver!
Where do you get 3- prong brake light switches for your aircooled VW's?
TIA!
Where do you get 3- prong brake light switches for your aircooled VW's?
TIA!
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Re: Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches?
The old ones are higher quality than new stuff. I have a collection of old switches.
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Re: Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches?
How much would you want for a couple of 3-prong brake light switches?Steve Arndt wrote:The old ones are higher quality than new stuff. I have a collection of old switches.
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Re: Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches?
I won't have a collection if I start selling them! :p
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Re: Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches?
^^^^^Steve Arndt wrote:I won't have a collection if I start selling them! :p
Word.
Addendum to Newtons first law:
zero vehicles on jackstands, square gets a fresh 090 and 1911, cabby gets a blower.
EZ3.6 Vanagon after that.(mounted, needs everything finished) then Creamsicle.
zero vehicles on jackstands, square gets a fresh 090 and 1911, cabby gets a blower.
EZ3.6 Vanagon after that.(mounted, needs everything finished) then Creamsicle.
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Re: Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches?
Wrecking yards are full of OEM switches, they are stashed in modern front/sideways engine cars and are rarely the reason they got bricked.
Yeah some may call it overkill, but you can't have too much overkill.
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Re: Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches?
Yesterday I ordered two of these:Jim Ed wrote:Hey PileDriver!
Where do you get 3- prong brake light switches for your aircooled VW's?
TIA!
Brake Light Switch, 3 Prong, 1967 and Newer Models, OEM VW, 113-945-515G-OEM
http://vwparts.aircooled.net/Brake-Ligh ... 5g-oem.htm
$18.95 each .
They shipped today.
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Re: Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches?
Based on the photos, those are the PEX switches.Jim Ed wrote:Yesterday I ordered two of these:Jim Ed wrote:Hey PileDriver!
Where do you get 3- prong brake light switches for your aircooled VW's?
TIA!
Brake Light Switch, 3 Prong, 1967 and Newer Models, OEM VW, 113-945-515G-OEM
http://vwparts.aircooled.net/Brake-Ligh ... 5g-oem.htm
$18.95 each .
They shipped today.
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Re: Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches?
sideshow wrote:Wrecking yards are full of OEM switches, they are stashed in modern front/sideways engine cars and are rarely the reason they got bricked.
As Sideshow noted, you could likely walk out of a junkyard with a toolbox full of good German brake switches for ~$5ish.
Many European cars <mid 90s are a potential source. Relays are cheap too.
(I happen to need a programmable wiper relay if anyone has or can score one cheap)
Risking immediate failure, I have not needed a brake switch in years.
If I simply could not get decent ones I would set up a GM style (or late VW) pedal operated setup like ~all modern vehicles use before buying mystery units that could cause brake failure. I'm not that big a fan of keeping it factory to be willing to die for it.
(I feel the same way about early seat rails. So did VW)
Addendum to Newtons first law:
zero vehicles on jackstands, square gets a fresh 090 and 1911, cabby gets a blower.
EZ3.6 Vanagon after that.(mounted, needs everything finished) then Creamsicle.
zero vehicles on jackstands, square gets a fresh 090 and 1911, cabby gets a blower.
EZ3.6 Vanagon after that.(mounted, needs everything finished) then Creamsicle.
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Re: Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches?
You don't even have to bend over if you steal them from a 80s/90s Volvo. They are right by the hood hinges.
Edit snag the snap in fluid reservoir too.
Edit snag the snap in fluid reservoir too.
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Re: Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches?
No. not PEX switches. they are stamped 'FTE' on them.modernbeat wrote:Based on the photos, those are the PEX switches.Jim Ed wrote:Yesterday I ordered two of these:Jim Ed wrote:Hey PileDriver!
Where do you get 3- prong brake light switches for your aircooled VW's?
TIA!
Brake Light Switch, 3 Prong, 1967 and Newer Models, OEM VW, 113-945-515G-OEM
http://vwparts.aircooled.net/Brake-Ligh ... 5g-oem.htm
$18.95 each .
They shipped today.
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Re: Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches?
You guys jinxed me. Read this post and 2 days later the brake lights stopped working. What do you think caused it? That's right, one of these suckers! Although mine are only 2 prong.
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Re: Hey PileDriver! where do you get brake light switches? TIA!
Maybe if I stop stomping on the brake pedal so hard the brake light switches will last longer.