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Originally Posted by GTuck
One more thing, my car has a remote starter. When I start the car with the remote starter the tail lights and the console are on. The second I push down on the brake to put the car in reverse or drive the console and the tail lights go out. When I use the remote to unlock the doors the tail lights flash.
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hi there,
so i got rid of my lumina earlier this year (wouldnt pass the inspection and i was just DONE with it), BUT I did "fix" the switch before i traded her in... and it worked fine. By the way, I use the word "fix" loosely.
If you're a little technically inclined, read on... otherwise this might sound like too much for some friggen lights. Like MacGyver, listen to this mickeymouse-job... I noticed that my mechanic friend had luck when he "jumped" some of the holes (this is the connector that hang's out of the dashboard when you pull the panel off, which has little slack to make things extra-fun). I'm no electrician, but i took a jumper wire (with the roachclips on the ends) and clipped a paperclip into each one(so they'd fit into those tiny holes), used the paperclips to poke 2 different holes in that connector. Sometimes sparks would fly, other times i would start to see a pattern (certain lights would come on when a certain pair of holes were poked/jumped). Well I wrote down what had worked and what lights came on and which ones were dangerous, and by process of elimination I then realized if I could just permanently have 2 of those pins connected at all times (bypassing the switch), all the lights would probably stay on. SO... I cut a small piece of wire (about 2 or 3 inches long) and inside the actual switch (NOT the connector that the switch plugs into), I found the corresponding "pins" that would plug into those 2 holes I wanted to bypass and i soldered the wire on, then coated it with super glue. Plugged it in, and everything worked fine ever since.
One problem, I couldn't tell you WHICH 2 pins they were. This probably didn't, but I hope this helps somehow. If you REALLY like your lumina, don't do this to it. I was always ready to see the dashboard explode into flames.