FTO AUSTRALIA

My FTO has done this since i bought it (until today), the brake pedal is somehow linked to the ignition and when you push it in the car gets ignition power, it doesn't fire the starter but all my dash lights come up, odometer powers up ect, it doesn't however power the a/c or radio and also the rear middle brake light would always stay on and would only go out when the car was off.

Its gets weirder because ff you keep the brake pedal engaged you cannot turn the car off, i can take the key out and all but as long as the pedal is still pressed in the car wont turn off. so far i've checked every light and fuse in car for faults and i've even traced all the wiring from the brake pedal switch and its all in line with the electrical technical manual. im not sure what it could've been. I have no after market immobilisers or central lockings or anything like that. Quite a weird problem i think.

So today I rewired the entire brake light system (wired the lights directly to the pedal, bypassing those green multi wire connector/plugs under the dash and viola, its back to normal. Im assuming that somehow a wire is crossed somewhere and is causing it but any other ideas?

Does it have a immobiliser?

I am guessing that whoever installed the immobiliser didn't install it properly.

They may have meant to install a "car does not start unless brake is depressed" feature but stuffed up.

Vectose wrote:Does it have a immobiliser?

I am guessing that whoever installed the immobiliser didn't install it properly.

They may have meant to install a "car does not start unless brake is depressed" feature but stuffed up.

no immobiliser, but there may have been one in the past, i did see some wires that looked like they used to be spliced into. Its one hell of a screw up lol

Yeah, I'm siding with Vectose.