Re: Back up light?

[Michiel van Wessem <jmvw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruce,

Is there a washer on your back-up light switch? The new switch for my 325es
wouldn't work unless I left off the washer.

Michiel (87 325es)

At 09:39 AM 1/5/99 -0800, you wrote:
>M3 has no back up lights.  Plenty of current at lights.  Lights come on
>when direct wired.  Reverse switch works when removed from transmission.
>Switch doesn't work when installed.  Apparently, accuating plunger is not
>long enough to get depressed when reverse is engaged.  (At least that's
>what I assume is going on.)  Switch appears to be standard reverse light
>switch.
>
>Was there a special switch for early E30 M3 transmissions, one that
>extended deeper into transmission housing?
>
>Obviously, I can and have been living with this for some time, but NM
>drivers in parking lots are terrible.  I'd like to give them all of the
>warning that I can.
>
>TIA.
>Bruce McReynolds
>Santa Fe - the City Different - NM
>'88 M3
>'89 635CSi
>BMWCCA 127260
>
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