[DML] Re: Cheap British Switches

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let's be honest -- NONE of the switches on the DeLorean are anything
to write home about, including the troublesome headlight master
switch. Factory lever lights disintegrate. Those who can reassemble a
defroster switch are elevated to guru status. As a new owner I'd have
expected more from a car MSRP'd with a Porsche. Now of course they're
just an inconvenient part of preservation ownership (better switches
would  have made our lives easier but we work with the car as built
and keep on truckin').

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Josh Haldeman <jhaldeman@xxxx> wrote:
> I don't know...the glovebox light /engine compartment light plunger 
> switches have housings, and they break all the time...I don't think I'd 
> want any more brittle housings where they weren't needed.
> 
> -Josh
> VIN 5102
> VIN 15964
> and the rest...
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> content22207 wrote:
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> >Those flat pieces of metal ARE the switch. Don't even have a housing
> >around them. Quality, eh?
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> >Bill Robertson
> >#5939
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> >>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Alex Wolf" <alex@xxxx> wrote:
> >>I fixed it. It turns out, there are 2 pieces of flat metal where the
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> >wires
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> >>plug on to, the PO had mounted them both on the back of the switch,
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> >so it
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> >>was a constant connection. I removed one piece and mounted it to the
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> >screw
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> >>that holds the switch in. It works now, thanks guys!
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> >>Alex Wolf
> >>#4608
> >>www.deloreanowners.com
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