DMRH

Was going through a box at an import wreckers & came across this centre console switch from an (obviously) JDM RX-7.

Haven't seen it before in any of the catalogs & am unsure of its function.

It toggles into "on" & "off" mode with 3-wires attached.

I have enhanced the symbol on the centre console button for easier identification.

wReX

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Fog lights?

austinsFD

yup there fog lights

DMRH

No guys. Its not the fog lights. Have the fog light button & its a head light with a "hash" symbol in front.

I'll take a pic to show the difference & post it later.

In 12 years of playing with FD's (92+) I have never come across this one, very strange

2GSLSE

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maybe its for a radar jammer

turbojeff

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Headlight washers?

Some Canadian models have them..

Pg-Unlimited

If this switch came from the same location as the Rear Defroster and Fog Lamp, this switch would be the Canada Headlight Cleaner Switch.

Page Z-83, 93 Workshop manual.

Thanks,

Steven

bigmack000

not the washer button.
maybe a back up alarm lol who knows

JONSKI

The switch itself is blurry, yet the printing is sharp and clear... I'm thinking photoshop.

diablone

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You think he faked his own picture to ask us what it was?

Beny

maybe is for the combo lights.

back-up sensor could also be it, i seen some land yauts with the same switch

spoolin93r1

wouldn't be for a rear beam would it? i know some skylines and other jdm vehicles that are imported into australia and europe are equipped with a red fog light in back that is referred to as the rear beam

zmarko

I think we have a winner. Some European countries require a rear "headlight" (more of a small spotlight) so when there is foggy weather, people can see you easier. It's not very bright, and there's a switch to turn it on/off. That's my guess what it is as well. My rental car in the UK few weeks ago had one.

tookwik

yeah i was thinking either the rear for light type thing or a backup alarm. Either way, good find... I've never seen it before.

PVerdieck

Yeah, I was thinking from the image that that was the back of the car not the front.

DMRH

Your thinking the way I am thinking.

Although this was in a box full of JDM FD RX-7 parts I am suspucious about its origin as I think it may be a high wattage rear globe for rear view in fog. These are common on European models.

I didn't want to suggest this in case I was wrong but am glad you are thinking in the same direction.

Speaking of direction. I think by virtue of its orientation. that its indicating to the rear too

Pg-Unlimited

You're right, looking at it in the sense of having a rear light would make the hood pretty short on that picture...Neat!

AREITU

It's a backup sensor. My japanese friend handed me a bag of brochures from japan when he got back a few days ago and backup sensors are a dealer-installed accessory.

If it were a rear facing foglight, it would have the foglight emblem or a light emblem on it, or the rear foglight would automatically turn on with the fronts. The half-circle with three straight lines one.

areXseven

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It's a "silent mode" back-cat switch. It lowers your Dbs to create a quiter cruise when police officers are near.

Maybe it's a switch originally equipped in a Miata, then installed in the subject FD to substitute a broken OEM foglight switch??

DMRH

Back up sensor hey!!

Do you mean the type that beeps as you get closer to the wall.........???

Agree with you on the fog light issue now that you seem some what sure of this.

Any more info on the back up sensor. perhaps a scanned pic of the parts

Brede

It sure isn't the rear foglights..

wiblergt

come on... everyone knows that is the the TRACTOR BEAM switch!

you have to turn that on for the FLUX CAPACITOR to work properly!

it is on page Z-69 of the shop manual!!!!

felix_is_alive

its an alarm system, the newer version

WaLieN

I didn't know Mazda equipped FD's with a FMDR (front mount death ray).

LAMEtHIng

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It engages/disengages the flux capacitor, quite obviously.



Personally I would go along with the whoops-there-is-a-6-year-old's-bike-behind-you switch. That is just judging by the drawing on the switch though.