Stop Lamp Switch Problem????

Hi JD,

No I would have to assume the controller is OK because it works just fine when it gets a signal from the brake switch....and thats all it has to do with the brake light circuit.

Thanks.

Its a HZJ105 cruiser wagon (no ABS). I joined the red prodigy wire in just above the stop lamp switch (green/orange wire from memory) ....the wire that only gets power when you depress the brake pedal.

For all I know this could have been a problem since I've owned the car (ie before fitting the prodigy) but unless you have someone you know following you and knows when your using the brake...you'd never know. It only became obvious because the prodigy unit displays when the brake pedal is being used.

The fault is intermittent so can't be a fuse and the brake lights don't light up when no signal is going to the Prodigy....hence my Q about the Stop Switch itself.

I've rung Toyota here in Broken Hill and they can't get a switch in till friday and Repco told me you can only get Genuine.......

Any ideas??

Your suspicions are correct, the prodigy takes a reference from the brake light circuit, it does not (cannot) interrupt the circuit. I'd say it is a pretty safe bet that the switch is faulty.

Fairly serious problem considering it will affect van braking, is it worth hunting around boneyards for a switch?

BTW, it is recommended that the red wire runs all the back to the plug. On quite a few vehicles, the brake light switch is only a small offshute of the entire brake light circuit.

You didn't use 3M click joiners, did you?

The vans only a Jayco Dove so not that weighty and I'm not overly concerned about not having trailer brakes....more so not having actual brake lights. But I'm heading straight out from Broken Hill to Cameron Corner...so traffic lights and trafic won't be an issue ;))

No didn't use them click joiners (although I'll admit that is what I used first and changed it to the above when I first noticed this problem), I miraculously managed to split the wire and put blade ends on the wires and a "T" or 3-way joiner to connect in the prodigy wire. These joins are all tight and there is nothing loose.

You would just think that with a switch it would stop working and that would be that???

Had some issues with the missus Falcon a few months ago with a relay that would stop working intermittently (engine start). Had me stuffed for ages until I replaced the relay and haven't had a problem since. I would have thought a relay would only work or not work and not both.......

SORRY - I REREAD YOUR FIRST POST.

IF THE BRAKE LIGHTS DON'T WORK, THEN YOU HAVE AN INTERMITTENT PROBLEM AND I APOLOGISE FOR WASTING YOUR TIME.

The go is to folow Dunarana's advice.

Max

Hi Don,

One wire in...one wire out. Wire out is the one I've attached too.....and its the one that only gets voltage when the brake pedal is pushed.

I've pretty well come to the conclusion that it must be a faulty switch.

Just didn't think that something electric could work intermitently.

Sorry i just reread your original post & saw it was a HZJ105 without ABS so i assume it is a standard model so disregard my cruise control question

Regards Don