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"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Ray O" <rokigawa@tristarassociatesDOTcomn> wrote in message
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>> You didn't mention what type of vehicle - is it the BMW?
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>> BTW, the reverse switch may be in the shifter console instead of the
>> shifter itself. You might want to check it out by pulling back the shift
>> boot and looking from above.
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>> Good luck![/color]
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> Yeah, it's the BMW. The switch is in the tail of the trans. I also had
> trouble with the Parking Brake indicator, and hoped that the parking brake
> switch and the reverse switch shared a connection that wasn't made, and
> that this lived inside the console somewhere. It turns out the parking
> brake switch was missing a return spring -- a purely mechanical issue, not
> electrical at all.
>
> Thinking the reverse switch might be in the shifter itself, I asked on the
> BMW newsgroup. Somebody posted a pic of it on the tail of the trans, and I
> should be able to get at it with my floor jack.
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Good luck with the repair. Next time, take an IS for a test drive ;-)
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Ray O
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