June 7, 201411 yr 97 legacy wagon.base model .the parking lights wont turn off. i pulled the 20 amp fuse in box under the hood so battery wont go dead. switch in colum? relay?
June 7, 201411 yr Check the parking light Switch on the TOP of the steering column. Hard to see from in the seat. Easily flipped and not noticed if you just cleaned the car and wiped across the top of the column with a rag.
June 7, 201411 yr Author well that was an easy fix. thanks.never even saw that switch before.lol now for a new thread on my ac problem......
June 7, 201411 yr I could never understand the value of that switch. Does anyone ever use that switch??
June 7, 201411 yr Yes I do, it is illegal to park a car unlit at the side of the road outside city limits in at least the Netherlands and Germany. Only the subaru one is an overkill it leaves on both sides sidemarkers and rear license plate lights. Usually with other cars here to point the indicator to the side you want the side markers to be on.
July 31, 201411 yr Been bit by this one as well, 98 Legacy L wagon, (our Plan "B" transportation) which our oldest daughter has been driving for past 3 years, (she put over 40,000 miles on it), we gave her till end of Aug to get her own car, this past weekend she bought a sweetheart '98 Legacy L sedan. In giving it the once over, replacing the bad knoock sensor, new battery, tune up, etc, thought it a good time to figure out a way to properly disable the Virgin switch "feature" for her car and ours. Being as we have a '95 Legacy L sedan parts car on hand I set out to do just that today. Tearing into the parts car discovered that switch is 3 wire SPDT switch, COMMON, OFF, and ON. In wanting to disable this feature in a way that does not interfrere with the normal lighting funtionality and alleviate the inadvertant dead battery, (were not so lazy that we cant start the engine to turn on our parking lights if we desire them for any reason), I just spliced the OFF wire to the COMMON on the switch side of the connector under the steering column, functionally the car sees the switch in the OFF position permantly now, switch is no longer operational. the '95 and both our '98's have the same connector and wire color coding. Disclaimer. If attemtping this yourself I strongly encourage verifing whcih wire is which using a OHM meter before cutting and splicing as wire color coding/pinouts may be model specific, i.e. not matching what I'm showing here. Be sure to "safe off" the unsed wires, just good practice. ;-) Works perfectly, lights function normally, switch on top of the steering column disabled. Edited July 31, 201411 yr by BRAAP
January 4, 201511 yr Update. Performed the above mod on daughters freinds '97 Legacy GT. Bought myself '03 LL-Bean H6 Outback wagon, cuddled up with wiring diagrams, DMM and performed same mod here as well, even easier ont eh '03, just unplug and install a jumper so the lighting systems sees permenant "OFF" signal, no inadvertent dead batteries after resetting trip meter etc. Edited January 4, 201511 yr by BRAAP
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