desperate help needed (back up light)!!!

[djsteveyk@shaw.ca (Jody Bailey)]

Alright...call off the hounds.  Chalk another one up to the wonderful 
quirks of our cars(after all isn't that why we love them?).  So I goes out 
to my car after writing the original e-mail (pissed off as usual) and take 
the new back up light switch out to see what is going on inside that little 
magical hole.  Not that one you freaks!!!!  The one that houses the back up 
light switch.  So in go the fingers and do some diddling...put the car in 
reverse and continue to diddle some more.  I feel the contact that would be 
made with the switch and give it some attention.  Put my old switch (which 
BTW was not busted after all, just need to be ripped apart and cleaned out) 
back in and voila, the back up lights work perfectly.  So if any of you out 
there runs into a similar problem, just get yer little fingers dirty and do 
some diddling.  Also as a side note, save your $25 for a new switch and 
take your apart first.  Chances are it is filled with all kinds of 
crap(gunked up tranny fluid)  and just needs a bath.  Sorry Potterman, I 
bet you are making a killing off these little bastards ;)  Now back to the 
car kids...

Jody Bailey (one step closer to London, ON)
82 Scirocco 2L 8v


At 04:27 PM 28/11/02, you wrote:
>It's not often I am desperate...well not with the car anyway, but I am 
>asking for anyone's help because I really need it to get this car sold so 
>I can move already.  Now I went through the archives and found no answer 
>to this. Here's the story, and I will keep it brief...
>
>Put new switch in and the back up lights don't work (check the switch and 
>it works fine).  What mechanism is it that triggers the switch in the 
>transmission?  Am I going to have to tear into the tranny to get these 
>damn lights to work??? And no this is not a crazy obsession to have back 
>up lights.  I need to have them to pass a safety here in SK.  If I just 
>complete the circuit on the connector (black wire and bk/gy wire) going 
>into the passenger compartment the lights work so it has nothing to do 
>with the fuse box or wiring.  I have it pretty much narrowed down to the 
>switch not getting triggered, therefore not completing the circuit and 
>lighting up the said stoopid ass back up lights. So if anyone has any 
>experience in this, or just some suggestions, before I go tearing into the 
>transmission please contact me ASAP!!!  TIA
>
>Jody Bailey (trying to leave the sticks that is saskatchewan)
>82 Scirocco 2L 8v
>
>
>
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