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why?
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:11 am
by stangguywitascuby
why are my tail lights always on?
even when the headlights are off, the tail lights still are on.
even when the car is turned off, the tails are still on
nothing turns them off except for when the battery goes dead.
where should i begin looking?
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:25 am
by LegacyT
Is your parking light switch on, the one on on the steering wheel column?
Mark,
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:28 am
by stangguywitascuby
LOL
yep, sure was!
but isnt that the emergency flasher button? (all turn signal bulbs are out, and the gauge cluster is out, so i cant tell
)
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:30 am
by stant093
i bet it is that switch, i hit it when i got my first legacy, while cleaning, and unhooked the battery for the next week or so to stop the lights from killing the battery, then a friend hit the switch and laughed at me...check that switch!
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 2:00 am
by ciper
Its happened to all of us.
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 2:49 am
by eastbaysubaru
Not ALL of us, though I did have to explain that one to my sister. She was about to take it to the dealer (it's an '02). LOL!
-Brian
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 4:01 am
by legacy92ej22t
stangguywitascuby wrote:LOL
yep, sure was!
but isnt that the emergency flasher button? (all turn signal bulbs are out, and the gauge cluster is out, so i cant tell
)
It's the parking light,some wierd foreign thing,on mine the hazard light switch is above the climate controls.Actually right above the heat/def and the def buttons
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 4:40 am
by mTk
ciper wrote:
Its happened to all of us.
Heheh, not quite
MK
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 5:36 am
by Brat4by4
Some places required the ability to turn on the parking lights without the key (I'm sure it's a good reason
). Thus the button. And it never happened to me cuz I knew what the button was before hand (I think from this BBS on top of that).
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 8:03 am
by georryan
My old GL-10 had that button. When I first found it I was like "Wow, what a cool 'feature.'" <said with increadable enthusiasm and intrigue> I wasn't sure why it was there, maybe for emergencies or something. Most cars you can turn on the lights without the keys, but subarus you can't because the ignition kills everything, including the auxilery engine fans, so I figured that's why it had this nifty little button.
-Ryan
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 3:48 pm
by evolutionmovement
My mother did the same thing on her GL?loyale. Took me a while to figure it out because my older GL's didn't have that feature. Headlights still don't stay on even with the switch, though, so I don't get the point. Though I hooked in my big Hella fog lights to the parking lights so that I could get some light with the switch. Comes in handy while burying bodies in the woods at night.
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 4:17 pm
by Grant
I think it is for parking your car in the middle of the street in Japan and Europe. They invented double parking.
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 5:57 am
by vrg3
Not necessarily the middle of the street, but when you park on narrow unlit streets, or on sidewalks.
I don't know exactly what circumstances require you to use your parking lights (or city lights) in Europe, but there are some.
My old Germany-spec Mercedes actually let you turn the left and right parking lights on separately so you could only light up the side of the car that was in danger of being hit by traffic.