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Here's an odd one. Got home, looked out the window and my parking lights are on. Very strange since I always leave the headlight in the full on position. Go out to investigate and switch is Off. Turn it on and off a few times, still the same, all 4 parking lights won't go off.
So first reaction? Search the brickboard of course. But not much there just some posts about wiring thru the hinges of wagons getting a short between the always hot wiper wire and the parking lights.
Second reaction is to take the switch apart (that may be the last switch on the car I haven't disassembled) and clean it. The first tricky part of this is you have to partially pull the cluster and push it to the right to get the headlight switch out. The second tricky part is getting the switch back together at the end so make alignment marks on everything including the shaft to body position (I used fingernail polich). I dutifully cleaned all the contacts just like 100 times before but really could not see any way that the switch could not be turning off the parking lights.
The last tricky part is you have to compress the copper arm onto it's alignment pin from the side with a small screwdriver as you are pushing the 2 halves back together. I had to do it a few times before being successful. It's very tricky.
In the end that fixed the problem and the lights now turn off but I dont' know why or how but this wouldn't the first time I fixed things on this car without knowing how. Hope this helps somebody out and oh while you are doing this you can just pull fuses 15 and 16 which control R and L parking lights.
Robb McC
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