Toggle Switch For What?

[86VickyLX]

I leave it in the on position. It starts. What I did notice was that it has stickers for 'Ford New Car Protection System Inside and Out' Or whatever. I also see it has some kind of Radioshack something. That's just a sticker. I don't know it may have at one time.

[87DeuceVic]

Yea it was probably used for something like fog lights/spotlights.......is your car a PI??

[CheeseSteakJim]

I leave it in the on position. It starts. What I did notice was that it has stickers for 'Ford New Car Protection System Inside and Out' Or whatever. I also see it has some kind of Radioshack something. That's just a sticker. I don't know it may have at one time.

What if you flip it to off, though? Does it still start?

You could just try every electrical feature of your car with it in one position and then try everything in another... You could also trace the wires... hmm. Do you have a multimeter/voltmeter? See if it's always hot, or if it's only hot at specific times. If so, when? Then you could narrow it down. If it's not hot when the car's off, then you know it's not connected to anything that's hot when the car is off.

Yea it was probably used for something like fog lights/spotlights.......is your car a PI??

It probably isn't, since it has the 302 in it.


I personally think it has something to do with an anti-theft system, but that's just me. It's somewhat common for aftermarket installers to hide a starter kill somewhere in the car for the customer.

[gadget73]

You'll have to chase the wires out. Its not factory, it could be literally anything.



Police models (more accurately fleet models as they were called at the time) also were available with a 302, but generally they were not LX models, and they have other telltales like the police suspension and whatnot. The "police model" was actually just a fleet model P72 with the police package added to it. You could get a P72 that didn't have the police stuff.

[Lincolnmania]

it's prob the flux capacitor switch

[87DeuceVic]

it's prob the flux capacitor switch

[87_crown_vic]

damn....i was gonna say that Scott....just keep the car under 88mph....you might disappear on us and disturb the space time continueum...unless it was the toggle switch setup instead of the lil red button from Men in Black

[CheeseSteakJim]

You'll have to chase the wires out. Its not factory, it could be literally anything.



Police models (more accurately fleet models as they were called at the time) also were available with a 302, but generally they were not LX models, and they have other telltales like the police suspension and whatnot. The "police model" was actually just a fleet model P72 with the police package added to it. You could get a P72 that didn't have the police stuff.

I know they were available, but it's not very common to see a police model with a 302. That's why I said it probably wasn't.

[P72Ford]

My brother's 88 CVPI has a switch like this, and it is factory, in his case. I also believe it is from the factory in your case as well. If you all look close in the picture (which isn't very good), you will see that the the switch has a plastic bezel around it, molded onto the actual dash panel. That is definitely factory my friends.

Now, in my brother's car, the switch is a toggle, mounted in that same opening, and I know what that controls. This is because my 90 has the same switch, but in a diff. location. On a cop car, that switch was originally for the wig wag lights.

However, both of our cars (our = me and my bros) did not have operational wig wags when we obtained them. When you turn your headlights on and put on the high beams, all four lights should light up. On our cars when the switch is on, a little yellow LED is on, and only the outside lights are on (with the high beams on). In other words, if you leave the high beams on, and then toggle the switch it flips between the outside lights only, and all four lights as high beams. I'll try to post some pics.

I don't know what this switch is for in your car, but my 88 parts car has the same thing too. Try the high beam deal and see what happens.

[P72Ford]

Okay, so I took some pics. You can see that the dash was molded that way from the factory. This switch is the toggle (police factory). But my 88 parts car (not home) has the square switch like the one in question.

You can see the little LED (below the switch in my bro:banana: s. car)

Theres also a pic of the same switch in my 90.

Hope this helps.

[86VickyLX]

it's prob the flux capacitor switch

It's a vic, not a Delorean, lol.

[86VickyLX]

unless it was the toggle switch setup instead of the lil red button from Men in Black

I was gonna say that. I wish it were possible.

[86VickyLX]

I believe it is a single wire feed coming out the back of the switch. So.....

[boXman]

does it move just up and down or does it move around? looks like a pass mirror adjuster to me...someone coulda converted it.

[CheeseSteakJim]

Okay, so I took some pics. You can see that the dash was molded that way from the factory. This switch is the toggle (police factory). But my 88 parts car (not home) has the square switch like the one in question.

You can see the little LED (below the switch in my bro:banana: s. car)

Theres also a pic of the same switch in my 90.

Hope this helps.

Fuck, I miss my old Crown Vic.