Parking Lights stay on

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Originally Posted by elorenzof

When i put the new headlight switch it was still hanging out of the hole in the dash and i tried it by pushing in the switch all the way in to have everything off and it worked! Parking lights went off. Pull the switch out one click, parking lights come on. Pull out two clicks, headlights / parking lights all work.

However, after i mounted the switch in the dash it appears it grounds thru the dash and now the parking lamps front, rear, side markers etc, stay on. so im back to what it was doing.

I suspect the problem is mechanical and not electrical. In other words something is preventing the switch from going to the full off position when installed in the dash.

You can test this by removing the switch from the dash and temporarily grounding it. If the parking lights remain off when grounded the problem isn't electrical.