julianfast

Well, turns out toping off my brake fluid solved my brake light problem. I'm feeling a little silly about that, but apparently the brake fluid needs to be pretty darn close to full for the light to go off.

So, I fiddled with the switch under the hand brake and the light went off momentarily. I figured it was a bad connection so I tried cleaning the contact. No luck it looks like this switch only controls the DRL which seem to be fuctioning fine. So, I don't think this switch is bad.

 

Is there some other switch that tells the car if the parking brake is on?

I also just did the adjustment. Popped off the little panel by gently inserting a flat blade screwdriver in the crack between it and the console and gently working it free. Turns out there is not much risk of breaking any flimsy snaps. They are pretty heavy duty. A 10 mm wrench is the right one.

 

I overtighened it the first time. A couple of turns tightens it quite a bit. Of course, I didn't check the forum first so I started removing the entire console and now a I'm short one screw which is going to be rolling around under the console forever!

 

Anyway, so this didn't solve the problem I was trying to solve which was the brake light never goes off. I suspect the parking brake switch since I have fluid and the brakes otherwise work well. Anyone have any ideas on that?