If you all of a sudden discover one day (while out of your car) that your brake lights are illuminated as if the pedal is still being depressed, or your battery is dead, this might be the solution.
If you haven't read this yet, in an effort to get your brake lights off, you've probably:
• flipped the parking lights on and off several times hoping it would fix itself
• grabbed the keys and took'er out for a spin (why not:biggrin
to see if it magically resets itself
• considered or already pulled a fuse to turn'em off so you don't drain your battery
• disconnected the battery
• ...or it's too late
Regardless, you realize that you're gonna have to get down in the footwell and figure out what's wrong.
The problem is a completely disintegrated rubber stopper (15+ years old) that has fallen into pieces somewhere in your footwell. It fell out of a hole of a metal frame that is part of your brake pedal assembly (part 032).
The brake switch has a spring loaded pin that gets depressed (= brake lights off) when the pedal is in resting position. If the stopper is missing (note: your brake switch is most likely just fine and not needing to be replaced) the pin will never get depressed thus remaining open and your brake lights as a result will NEVER turn off...even if the key is out. And if you parked your car in the garage and wasn't planning on visiting it again for a week or so, your battery is gone.
These threads 1, 2, & 3 had the same issue but since none of them mentioned the part number or included pics, I put this together and the part # is 46505-SA5-000 which can be purchased for $1.55. Also, Honda's new stopper is made out of molded plastic instead of rubber.
Fortunately for me, awhile back I had a similar issue with the clutch
pedal snagging on something and the solution to repair it was very simple and is exactly the same solution to repair this, so I pretty much knew what was wrong and fixed this in less than five minutes since I already had the part.
So check if you have the rubber or the newer plastic stopper. If it's rubber, check if they are brittle or just save yourself the headache of experiencing any of this by ordering 2 at the same time for a whopping $3.10 and swap out the clutch and brake stoppers.
If you haven't read this yet, in an effort to get your brake lights off, you've probably:
• flipped the parking lights on and off several times hoping it would fix itself
• grabbed the keys and took'er out for a spin (why not:biggrin
to see if it magically resets itself• considered or already pulled a fuse to turn'em off so you don't drain your battery
• disconnected the battery
• ...or it's too late
Regardless, you realize that you're gonna have to get down in the footwell and figure out what's wrong.
The problem is a completely disintegrated rubber stopper (15+ years old) that has fallen into pieces somewhere in your footwell. It fell out of a hole of a metal frame that is part of your brake pedal assembly (part 032).
The brake switch has a spring loaded pin that gets depressed (= brake lights off) when the pedal is in resting position. If the stopper is missing (note: your brake switch is most likely just fine and not needing to be replaced) the pin will never get depressed thus remaining open and your brake lights as a result will NEVER turn off...even if the key is out. And if you parked your car in the garage and wasn't planning on visiting it again for a week or so, your battery is gone.
These threads 1, 2, & 3 had the same issue but since none of them mentioned the part number or included pics, I put this together and the part # is 46505-SA5-000 which can be purchased for $1.55
. Also, Honda's new stopper is made out of molded plastic instead of rubber.
Fortunately for me, awhile back I had a similar issue with the clutch
pedal snagging on something and the solution to repair it was very simple and is exactly the same solution to repair this, so I pretty much knew what was wrong and fixed this in less than five minutes since I already had the part.
So check if you have the rubber or the newer plastic stopper. If it's rubber, check if they are brittle or just save yourself the headache of experiencing any of this by ordering 2 at the same time for a whopping $3.10 and swap out the clutch and brake stoppers.
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