Brake switch connection for BOA
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Forum Name: Car Security and Convenience
Forum Discription: Car Alarms, Keyless Entries, Remote Starters, Immobilizer Bypasses, Sensors, Door Locks, Window Modules, Heated Mirrors, Heated Seats, etc.
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Printed Date: May 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Topic: Brake switch connection for BOA
Posted By: rkoz
Subject: Brake switch connection for BOA
Date Posted: December 26, 2004 at 8:05 PM
Hello: I have a 1997 chevy pick up. I am installing a Boa remote start, but I am having trouble with making one connection. I can not get at the wires for the brake switch! The switch is at the top of the brake pedal, and even though I can see the wires, ( I need to connect to the white one) I can't get at them - Is there an alternate connection spot? Is this connection an absolute must as it says in the install manual? Has anybody else dealt with this very poor placement of the brake switch? My knuckles are all cut up from trying to get at this! ------------- koz
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Posted By: swamprat323
Date Posted: December 26, 2004 at 8:19 PM
Follow the wires, most time they come down or around to places were you can get at, Or if you can un plug it and then tap into it.
Posted By: rkoz
Date Posted: December 26, 2004 at 8:31 PM
swamprat: Thanks for your quick reply. I spent most of an hour trying to unplg it. The darn thing has a clip on the left side that I can only see by using a mirror! I haven't come up with a way to unplug it yet... Can't get the clip pushed in because of poor placement. ( Typical of chevy engineering! ) The wires dissappear behind the intrument panel, but I was hoping I would not have to pull this off too! I need to go use my other christmas present, a back massager, to get rid of the kinks in my back and neck from working on this. Thanks! - anyone else?? ------------- koz
Posted By: swamprat323
Date Posted: December 26, 2004 at 8:41 PM
i just did the other day a 97 Jimmy, and that was a dam pain.Everythign went fine until i came across the brake wire. it came down in a loom of wires near the break pedal. It was easier to feel it then to look at it, i open up the loom and made my connection there.
Posted By: gus1
Date Posted: December 27, 2004 at 9:41 AM
100% GM Trucks and light trucks on the road before 2000 have the brake light in the column harness.... especially useful for the cursed hidden switch models from 1990ish to around 94-95. Why you may ask??? They use the rear turn signals for brake lamps.... so, it has to be fed through the turn signal assembly (ever wonder why the brake wire doesen't show up in the harness along the sill?) and therefore, is usually found in the same harness as the ignition wiring, or on the flat plug with the horn, turn signals, etc. Ususally the white wire, may also be light blue.
Happy Festivus!
Gus
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Wherever I go, that is where I end up......
Posted By: rkoz
Date Posted: December 27, 2004 at 12:17 PM
Gus1: THANK YOU,THANK YOU,THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! I will look for it in the the column. It should read the same way on the multimeter, right? I was looking for it in the sill late last night... Now I know why I couldn't find it!!!! - Will let you know later on today if all went well. My bloodied knuckles couldn't take much more! _____________________________________________ If at first you don't succed, ask someone who might now an easier way! ------------- koz
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