How to kill your brake lights with a switch
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Topic: How to kill your brake lights with a switch
Posted By: cpgoose
Subject: How to kill your brake lights with a switch
Date Posted: November 14, 2002 at 10:58 AM
Hi, I remember reading somewhere about installing a switch in order to turn your brake lights on and off. In other words, if you left the switch off, the brakes would work normally. If you turned the switch on, when you hit the brakes your tail lights wouldn't light up. Is this just as simple as putting a switch inline with your brake light wire? Please don't go nuts with safety issues...this is just out of curiousity. Thanks!
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Posted By: PLAYER69
Date Posted: November 14, 2002 at 11:24 AM
Yes it is as simple as cutting the wire at the brake switch and putting a switch in series. Very simple, very unsafe  
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: November 14, 2002 at 11:26 AM
Thanks! Above my brake, there's the switch with 2 wires. I used one to shut down the remote starter....are these the wires that you mean? And it doesn't matter if the brake is (+) or (-), a switch won't care, right?
Posted By: PLAYER69
Date Posted: November 14, 2002 at 11:29 AM
Same wire as long as you get it at the right place. ie right at the brake switch. I guess certain vehicles could be different but not likely. Let me know what the vehicle is and I can tell you for sure. Some side effects could be that the cruise won't cancel on certain vehicles. Again, tell me what the vehicle is and I might be able to tell you more.
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: November 14, 2002 at 11:30 AM
'92 Integra. Now I'm wondering if this affects just the brake lights, or the parking lights, too....since my back brake lights are the parking lights.
Posted By: PLAYER69
Date Posted: November 14, 2002 at 11:30 AM
Damn you! You edited your post, now mine makes no sense :)
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: November 14, 2002 at 11:32 AM
noooo, it still makes sense.  I thought my wording was bad.
Posted By: PLAYER69
Date Posted: November 14, 2002 at 11:33 AM
It won't affect the park lights. I am not 100% sure but I think your cruise won't cancel if you cut this wire. But then again, I would hope you wouldn't be using this on the highway anyways so it shouldn't really matter. Cut it after where you spliced your wire for remote start and your remote start will still shut down properly.
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: November 14, 2002 at 11:36 AM
Do you mean if I turn the switch on (to cut the brake lights), and use the cruise, then the cruise won't cancel.....OR just by cuttting that wire and installing the switch, it won't cancel anymore (whether the switch is on of off)?
Posted By: PLAYER69
Date Posted: November 14, 2002 at 11:42 AM
whith the switch on (technically speaking off or open) the cruise won't cancel. With the switch off (on or closed) the cruise will work fine.
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: November 14, 2002 at 11:56 AM
hmmm....so when you said to connect it after where I spliced the wire for the remote start......which of the following do you mean.....A or B...... 
Posted By: PLAYER69
Date Posted: November 14, 2002 at 2:51 PM
A
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