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Potential safety issue with brake lights

Old 09-14-13, 09:59 AM
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Team 4th Gen. Just a heads up. When I first bought my 600, the radar cruise was throwing an error due to a faulty brake light switch near the brake pedal. It was repaired but it appears the adjustment on that switch may not have been done.

I noticed cars rushing up on me as I was slowing down and turning many times, even causing a car to swerve hard to avoid hitting me.

I realized my brake pedal needed to be about 3/4 pressed to engage the brake lights. I also noticed I had to really mash the brake to disengage the cruise control. I then noticed when someone drove my car and came to a light. No brake lights even though they were def slowing down and not coasting.

So i had my oil changed today and had them investigate while it was there. There is an adjustment to that switch component and now the lights come on with hardly any pressure on the pedal and cruise disengages with very slight pressure on pedal as it should.

So just a heads up if you happen to notice the same issue.

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as always good observation on your part. definitely a good thing it got fixed because they could have used that against you in an accident.
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as always good observation on your part. definitely a good thing it got fixed because they could have used that against you in an accident.
Yessur..now especially with my newborn son and wife riding in the car much more, I had to get this addressed once I figured out what was going on. Could of been a really bad situation

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its not just our cars, i see it alot on many different vehicles...so i do a regular chk of all my vehicles the all lights are up to snuff...
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