Hi!
I have some issues on my 90 camaro RS.
So, first of all, my shift indicator light is not working. When i use the switch to open the trunc, it shine briefly so the wiring and bulb are fine.
Second, i changed all lights from my dashboard, some of them works fine but i was wondering if there should be a "dimming light" when it's night? Mine is totaly black at dark.
And third, i have a switch below my light **** and i don't know what it is for? the guy before me wired it with three cables but there is a connector right behind it not used... it could be fog light? But the switch doesnt do anything (see the picture).
Thx by advance!!

 

Not completely sure what you're asking here; but the dash light dimmer is in the rotation of the headlight switch ****. If the dash lights don't work, try turning that ****.

Only person who even MIGHT know the answer to that question, is "the guy before me". Nobody out here can guess what sort of bird-brained scheme was going on (or not) in that person's mind. If it doesn't do anything, then it's just dead weight; the switch itself, and all the "cables" associated with it. Just wasting your gasoline hauling it around. Follow Sofakingdom's Rule of Wire: if one end isn't doing anything, then the other isn't either; if the ends aren't doing anything, then whatever is in the middle isn't either; it's useless, YANK IT OUT. Same for the switch.

As far as the factory connector behind there, if you can post a photo that shows its wire colors, it can be identified easily enough.

 

We can rotate the ****!
Basicaly all the proble,s are solved ^^
And i just changed the switch to find out what it does and it seems that it is indeed the fog lights, in my case, only the back ones bcs the guy before removed the front ones...
But THANKS

 

​​​​​​​ Sometimes it's just that easy.

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Never heard of "rear fog lights". I'd like to see this.

 

He is in France. One of the countries on Earth that actually knows what color headlights and fog lights should be. He might be talking about the overnight street parking lights that only turn on the parking lights on the street side of the car or actual rear fogs lights. IDK

European vehicle lighting standards are superior to US vehicle lighting standards.

 

Yeah US headlight regs are kinda weird. Whenever I'm in Europe (often) it's one of the things that stands out that they do better over there.

I don't know of any good way to separate the lights on the 2 sides of the car for operation like that, or even to separate the front parking lights from the rear. At least not in cars produced for the US market. They're not wired in a way that makes that very practical. Not impossible of course - after all it's just battery and ground - just, not practical. You'd either need abuncha relays, or to hack into the steering column and various other places, or both. Also easy enough to include at design time; just, not easy at all to retrofit.

 

Wow, thanks we are so much better than US, we have better lights! XD
That's not what i would consider better, there is too much regulation here...

 

TV standard (EU) PAL is/was better than (US) NTSC too. NTSC = Never The Same Colour and less TV lines of resolution.

You all have a better electrical system too. In the home here we have 120 VAC single phase 60 Hz. While most of you over there have 230 VAC 3 phase 50 Hz.

A lot of things over here in the US we had mass adoption first then other places years or decades later on. You all had the advantage of 20/20 hindsight and got to learn from our mistakes. By the time things improved and better ways were discovered we had millions, billions, or trillions of sunk cost into the infrastructure already.

And don't even let me get started on The International System of Units vs U.S. Imperial. I know how to use both so no problems but you couldn't pry me away from using Fahrenheit for human interaction temperatures. Fahrenheit just feels right. Like it was made for humans. Everything else I do and think in Celsius.

 

I happen to like American automotive lighting....

 

Superior? I beg to differ. And fugly.