Brake lights wont turn off!

[86ACRDLX]

i was at work and i walked by my car... i saw the brake lights on. so i check everything, their still on. so i unplugged em, and now i dont have brake lights.... anyone know why or how to fix this?????

[TJ89Accord]

there is a switch at the end of the pedal. It either went bad, or it just needs to be adjusted.

tim

[86ACRDLX]

where at the end of the pedal and how do i adjust it...?

[Vinny]

theres suppose to be a plastic grommet that goes on the brake pedal. More than likely it fell out, happens alot. If its still there then you may either need to replace or adjust your brake switch

Heres the breakdown for a stick and an auto the part is number 7 for both the 5 speed and for the auto

[blown89lxi]

the same thing happened to me and i ended up needing a new battery from it dying constantly. Follow the brake pedal up the metal bar that holds it. A plastic grommet was missing I replaced mine with a plastic piece meant to hold interior pieces on and some silicon.

[ckhaing]

same problem here, fixed, thanks for the info

[conozo]

When I had this issue I went to the hardware store and they had rubber stops in the hardware section that were the exact same shape and size as the hard plastic one that broke off.

[Hellothisiskyle]

Haha seems like a common issue. I took my acccord to two shops before they found the issue. They were going through wiring diagrams and testing voltages and everything all to find out it was just a tiny plastic bushing missing.

[Ursula87Kludge]

i was at work and i walked by my car... i saw the brake lights on. so i check everything, their still on. so i unplugged em, and now i dont have brake lights.... anyone know why or how to fix this?????

Yeah, probably ten years ago people were tailgating me some honking, and I was like,"What!?!". Well, I think I pulled into the drugstore parking lot and when I walked around the rear of the car I saw the lights glowing (and they were kind of hot too) and I figured out right then that it had to do with the brake pedal. I keep a bag full of tape, wire, and cable ties in the back seat, and when I saw the crumbled bits of navy blue rubber grommet lying on the floorboards I knew what I needed. Right then I trapped a nickel between the pedal arm and the push switch under the dashboard and the lights went out. Okay. So I ducktaped the nickel in place on the brake pedal arm, and went around like that for a couple of weeks before I decided that the hard nickel was probably bad for the switch mechanism. The rubber button thing on the clutch was already gone a long time ago, and that's why it cracked so hard with every gear shift.
Bay Bridge, yellow tail, and other cheap wines use plastic material for their corks, when they don't have screw caps, and I whittled a new rubbery button out of the "cork". Down on the pedal arm (both the brake AND the clutch) there is a 1 inch square flange of metal with about a 1/2 inch circular hole right in the middle that the push-button switch projects right through if there's nothing there to plug up that hole.
Here's how to whittle a new one: take a standard wine cork (plastic preferred) and work with the end that pointed down into the bottle because the corkscrew will weaken the other end. About 3/16 of an inch (5mm) from the undamaged end of the cork take a hacksaw blade or similar, coping saw etc. and gently cut around and around the cork until you get a depth that gives you a core slightly larger than the hole in the flange. Drop about another 3/4 inch below that incision and cut of the excess. Now carefully cut away , whittle away, the part of the cork that surrounds the core that will go through the hole. Remember, it still has to be SLIGHTLY larger in diameter than the hole in order to work.
The shape you're going for is like a cross between and angular art Deco mushroom, and a really thick thumb tack!
Insert your new rubbery button in the pedal flange bracket thing so that the disk that was the end of the cork in contact with the wine is now facing the momentary off switch (normally ON with no pressure,and OFF when depressed). The sides of your plug should be just big enough to keep the plug from slipping out, the flange on the cork plug/button should keep it from pressing through, and it should give you years of service.