April 24, 200817 yr My tailights will not turn off, even when I remove the key and yes the light switch is turned off. I end up pulling the fuse.. Any ideas? Functions normally otherwise
April 24, 200817 yr How about the "Virgin Switch" that pesky little rocker switch on the steering column?? Did you by any chance hit that switch?
April 24, 200817 yr It is that little pesky parking rocker type switch that is located on the top of the steering column just behind the steering wheel. I never use mine to know exactly what it is, or what it is suppose to be used for. It is prolly some sort of European or Japanese marketplace designed for special lighting. Every once in a while, someone posts here saying they can't turn off exterior lights, so they are pulling off their battery cable at night to keep from running the battery down. Locate, and flip the switch to see if your lights will turn off. Hope this advise works!
April 24, 200817 yr There is a rocker switch on top of the steering column that inevitably brings many a visitor to this site. Check to see that you didn't flip that switch while cleaning etc. It's a real DOH moment for many. Edit: Rooster beat me to the explanation.
April 24, 200817 yr Author ok, i will look and funny you should say when cleaning because that was what I was doing... Hope this works!
April 24, 200817 yr 1... 2.... 3!!! DOH!!! Just flipped the switch! lmao.. Thanks guys!! YEP.............THE VIRGIN SWITCH Did that one once ! ~Howard
April 24, 200817 yr It is that little pesky parking rocker type switch that is located on the top of the steering column just behind the steering wheel. I never use mine to know exactly what it is, or what it is suppose to be used for. It is prolly some sort of European or Japanese marketplace designed for special lighting. Every once in a while, someone posts here saying they can't turn off exterior lights, so they are pulling off their battery cable at night to keep from running the battery down. Locate, and flip the switch to see if your lights will turn off. Hope this advise works! In Holland, Germany (and probably all other EU countries) when you have your car parked after sunset and outside residential zone of a village you need to have your lights one when the car is parked on or partialy on the road. Just to prevent people crashing into the parked car at night. You can either park it completely of the road (lights can be off) or install LED lamps for the tail and front markers so it wont kill your battery. White (blue-ish) LED's are cool . Yes and there is the switch for.
April 24, 200817 yr YEP.............THE VIRGIN SWITCH Did that one once ! ~Howard yeah, me too. I hit it whilst doing some behind the dash switch/gauge/installation. I thought I had screwed something up with my wiring and pulled it all back apart to try and repair. It wasn't till I started pouring over FSMs to look for a possible mistake, that I saw the switch in the diagrahm. Theeeeeeeen I remembered the switch on the column! I was frantically preparing for a 2000 mile spur of the moment cross country trip. I guess it made me forget about the switch, which I knew ful well was there, just didn't connect the dots.
April 26, 200817 yr One time I bought a 93 Loyal with "wiring problems". It turned out to be the virgin switch. I got it for $500 and drove it for 3 years and sold it for $900. I still look for people selling Subaru's with "Wiring problems"
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