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I'm writing this for the next person who has to replace their brake light switch + is clever enough to use Saabnet's excellent search feature... A while back ours started to crap out occasionally. Thanks a lot to everyone who replied + pointed me in the right direction. In the end my wife got stranded before I got the part, drained the battery + took it to our indy... fair enough. Then just recently my 4 year old got in there + broke it again, so I got to do it anyway!
For such a simple thing, it can be a real pain in the neck. Literally (if you try to do it upside down). I read the various approaches people use here + fix my saab re removing the knee bolster. I've not had to do that yet + it looked like a bit of work to get back on right (for such a simple repair otherwise)... This car is an '89 + there are differences for various years (eg bolster + ducts are different on our 1993) that may not make this approach work as well for you, but fwiw, here's how I did it:
moved the drivers seat back, undid the 2 screws on the duct, pulled out the padding above the duct (also held up by the screws), bent the duct down, bungeed it to the seat. In spite of other comments, I don't see any need to work upside down. I tried that at first + there is no room to work + no fun having one's head jammed between the brake pedal + floor. Way easier to kneel in the doorway + look through the crack between the bungeed duct + the knee bolster with a light on the floor while reaching up under the knee bolster with a wrench... brake light switch is on a bracket (along with cruise switch), 12mm wrench to remove the bolt for the bracket, it all just drops down, swap the switch (this was the plastic tab style, not older threaded, so squeeze tabs with needlenose pliers to easily remove old one, new one clicks in), test it works, bolt the bracket back up where it goes, test the brake pedal turns on the lights when it should (brake pressed about 1/2"). Reassemble the padding + duct + screws. Bentley says a lot about adjusting the brake light switch, but it seemed to work perfectly the first time for me. I don't see how one can adjust a part that snaps into a hole in a bracket? I know some people bend the bracket, but I didn't need to... Similarly, the bracket bolts on through a hole with a reference tab, so there's basically no adjustment there either. Maybe this was a comment for the older cars with the threaded switch with a nut? The cruise switch also is a snap in job + I didn't try to adjust it either (I never use cruise so I didn't test it, and have no idea if it has ever worked in that car, though it probably does)...
anyway, pretty easy once I figured out how to access it conveniently... hope this post saves someone some hassle...
James...
posted by 216.75.189...
, Thu, 26 May 2011 16:14:08
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