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arob
03-23-2007, 11:22 AM
Last night, I was just "browsing" around underneath the dash and found a small toggle switch, mounted just about underneath the steering wheel. Does anyone know what switch this is?

Rocket launchers or oil slick, perhaps?:roll:
Chopper Dropper
03-23-2007, 11:26 AM
For adjusting your mirrors!!
Dirk
Mike W
03-23-2007, 11:30 AM
If it is just at the lip under the guages, it is a toggle switch that changes your mirror adjustment (the little nob on the drivers door, amazingly by the left outside mirror) so you can automatically change your right outside mirror.

Quirky, yes. Jeremy Clarkson hated it. I like it.
arob
03-23-2007, 11:34 AM
No - it's literally "underneath" the dash. I figured out the mirror switch last week. :p
}{arlequin
03-23-2007, 11:37 AM
'secret' kill switch? :)

(clifford alarms used to have 'in plain view' types of kill switches some years back.
you had to use the rocker to enter a 'code' to disable....)
BlackTalon
03-23-2007, 11:38 AM
Did you try toggling it to see what it does, or are you too scared? :-)
arob
03-23-2007, 11:42 AM
Man, I'm not touching that thing! :oops:
Mike W
03-23-2007, 11:43 AM
Picture might help.... not standard AFAIK.
arob
03-23-2007, 11:46 AM
Picture might help.... not standard AFAIK.

I'll take a picture tonight and post. I do see an Alpine box in the trunk, so perhaps it is a kill switch, from an aftermarket alarm. I checked to see if I had that keyslot in the driver's door, but there wasn't one - so I'm assuming it would be a kill switch for an aftermarket alarm.
Trak Ratt
03-23-2007, 11:56 AM
On my SC it ended up being an after market alarm activator. To the best of my knowledge Porsche never put a toggle switch under the dash on early 911s. Dealer may have but not the factory. PBB and others have tech articles on "grounding the coil" as an anti theft measure. They suggest a micro toggle switch for activation.
The obvious next steps is to trace the wiring.
BillJ
03-23-2007, 12:24 PM
In the 914, back when it was a street car and before Kurt rewired the whole car, you could push in the cigarette lighter and it would keep the car from starting by killing the spark. There was also a toggle switch that disabled the car that was under the dash.
arob
03-23-2007, 12:41 PM
Perhaps I'll try that tonight - flip the switch and see if it starts.

Thanks everyone!
Vicegrip
03-23-2007, 01:08 PM
I had a little switch on my 912 that I did not know what it went to. One day I got a call from some guy in Germany asking me to stop playing with it as it was making his basement light go on and off.
holminator
03-23-2007, 01:23 PM
Ejector seat. ;)
arob
03-23-2007, 01:47 PM
I had a little switch on my 912 that I did not know what it went to. One day I got a call from some guy in Germany asking me to stop playing with it as it was making his basement light go on and off.

I will keep an eye on my next door neighbor's garage door when I flip the switch. :)
Dr K
03-23-2007, 07:11 PM
Give it a little tug. If it then looks like the photo below, call Jazz! :D

4262

Peter
AznDrgn
03-23-2007, 08:35 PM
Nnnnnaaaaaaasssssssssssssssss
BertBeagle
03-23-2007, 09:14 PM
Start the engine with the transmission in neutral and the hand brake set.
Turn on the wipers, heater, and everything else.

Tie a piece of string about 50' long to the toggle and feed the string out a cracked window. Run the string over far enough to stand behind a tree or the corner of your house and put one finger in each ear, close your eyes and put the string in your mouth. Then pull back with your head to trip the switch to see what happens.

Report back here.