I swapped the trunk on my vert to get rid of the third brake light. What can I do to make the check panel not light up. There's 4 wires that run through a resistor? And the bulb. Which wires do you jump or should I run a resistor again? Thanks
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I just yanked the little board and everything from my vert 3rd brake light and left it wired up, tucked behind the carpet. If I had known it was as simple as gluckich says I certainly would have done that, though. I calculated what kind of a resistor it would take to emulate the 21W? bulb as far as the circuit was concerned, and it wasn't a standard resistance resistor that I could find at rat-shack, and I figured a resistor or the stock bulb would probably make similar amounts of heat anyways so i went with the bulb.
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Here's the page out of the ETM. Basically when the light lights up, that curly bit (the resistor) gets energized and that dashed bit sends power to the pointed part, which is a switch. The switch closes when it gets power. If the switch doesn't close, then it triggers the fault indicator.
To replicate it, you just need to complete the circuit, in this case, by looping the two smaller pins together.
Needed to be explained? Not really, but this is for the sake of others searching in the future. ;)
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