owenstrawn

Anybody know where I can get a replacement connector for the center brake light? Or how I can get the pins out to rebuild them? I have tried and tried to get a positive contact, but whenever I wiggle the wires the light goes out.

Thanks!
Owen

bob2200

One possibility would be to get one from a RX300 at a junk yard (automotive recycling center) and splice the cables.

owenstrawn

Thanks! That may be what I end up having to do...

owenstrawn

Update: After struggling with this intermittently for several years, I discovered that one of the terminals inside the socket was loose. I extracted it from the socket, bent it a little so it would hold more firmly, snapped it back into the socket, and have had no problems ever since.

Thanks!
Owen

salimshah

You can get replacement pins from Lexus.

They have a box full of various connector pins. You do have to take one out though and match with what they have. My issue [other than the price] is that when you cut the old one off, it shortens the wire and when you put the new one in, the wire gets under tension. I always add 2" piece and then solder the other end to the harness side.

In the end it is lot cheaper to buy the plug_with_2" wire from a salvage yard and replace the pin and solder the harness end.

One of these days I will buy the release tool .. till then it is jiggling with a jewelers screwdriver.

Salim