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"a silver switch" - 1/29/2006 8:20:03 AM   
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Are Mustang GT's from 99-04 supposed to have a little silver switch down below the steering column? You can move it side to side, but I have always left it alone because I dont know what its used for. Can anyone help? Thanks.
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RE: "a silver switch" - 1/29/2006 10:46:00 AM   
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DEAR GOD DON"T TOUCH THAT SWITCH!!!!!It's for the ejection seat.The roof will be blown clear of the car and then both front seats will fly straight up about 100 feet.
Did you but the car new?Because if not I'd say that someone put in an anti theft switch,fuel pump shutoff,or maybe a spark disabler??I went outside and looked under my dash and there is no switch like that.
Start her up and flip the switch and see what it does.

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RE: "a silver switch" - 1/29/2006 11:21:56 AM   
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sounds like an anti-theft switch to me, i have one on my car it was there when i bought it
its mounted under the dash

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RE: "a silver switch" - 1/29/2006 11:33:58 AM   
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if it has a remote starter on it it could be the valet switch

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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/2/2006 8:36:18 AM   
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I've moved it a couple of times, but I've always put it back. It was on the car when I bought it. Dont all Stangs, or the 99-04's, maybe just the GT's I dont know, but they came with an alarm and another thing just to unlock, lock and open the trunk, I have a brain cramp right now and cant thing of what its called. But I dont have a remote starter. So I really dont know what the hell it is. What would I need an anti-theft switch for?

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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/2/2006 4:05:29 PM   
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but they came with an alarm and another thing just to unlock, lock and open the trunk, I have a brain cramp right now and cant thing of what its called


i dont knwo if any of them came with a stock car alarm to be honest with you, at least mine didnt

and i cant remember that thing either, where you dont have you use the key to get inside, you can enter the car or pop the trunk w/o the keys.. damn, umm, you can gain entry with no keys?

hmm,,, i'll get back to you on what its called when you can gain 'entry keyless'

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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/2/2006 5:19:13 PM   
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and i cant remember that thing either, where you dont have you use the key to get inside, you can enter the car or pop the trunk w/o the keys.. damn, umm, you can gain entry with no keys?

hmm,,, i'll get back to you on what its called when you can gain 'entry keyless'


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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/2/2006 6:28:23 PM   
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take a picture of the switch so that we can all tell you we don't have one.

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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/3/2006 1:20:35 PM   
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Whatever it is.....it's not stock.

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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/3/2006 1:29:17 PM   
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Whatever it is.....it's not stock.


it sounds like it's gonna come out of the dark and kill everyone.

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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/3/2006 2:42:32 PM   
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to me it sounds like a after market alarm.

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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/3/2006 3:17:29 PM   
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Nitrous primer. Turns on the bottle warmer in the trunk. Factory option, quite rare really. It's science, you know.

It probably either.. Really ****s something up... or does absolutely nothing. Maybe makes flames come out of your exhaust?

Could be a V-Tec activation switch.

No really though, did you car ever have a chip in it?

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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/3/2006 6:14:32 PM   
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Hahaha how about everyone quits guessing and tells the guy to trace the wires and figure out where they are going?



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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/3/2006 6:50:50 PM   
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Hahaha how about everyone quits guessing and tells the guy to trace the wires and figure out where they are going?




wouldn't he have done that already if he could?

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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/3/2006 7:04:37 PM   
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Tell me why he can't trace the wires?



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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/5/2006 8:07:15 AM   
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No I havent traced the wires, but I guess I could since I dont have to come back to work until Tuesday night. I'll let you'll know.

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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/5/2006 4:19:28 PM   
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ya, i would really like to know what this is, bc im stumped as well

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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/5/2006 9:14:10 PM   
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it switches between alternator and turbonator modes... super rare part, most likely overnighted from japan. If you look closely, Vin diesel has one on his import in the fast and furious... flip it and prepare to run 9s

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RE: "a silver switch" - 2/6/2006 7:37:53 AM   
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