Everybody's car will do it. The top (most likely) headlight switch will break off leaving your headlights stuck up at the most inconvenient of times.
For the mildly adventurous, you can have a crack at fixing the switch.
First, remove the 4 screws that hold the instrument cover in place (2 under the curved ends and 2 inside and above the instrument area)
Undo the 3 connectors and pull out the instrument cover. Then undo the two metal screws that hold the switch cluster in place.
With the cluster on the bench it will look like this.
Undo the globe, cut the cable tie that holds the cable to the bracket then carefully pry back the 5 metal folded tabs that hold the plastic part to the metal enclosure. Carefully pull the cable/plastic cover off.
You can gently remove the contact part and cable. Take note of the metal plate that is sitting in the metal casing. The bottom of the white carriers have small pins in them, the metal plate runs along the pins and makes the buttons pop. Make sure it goes back where it came from.
Take the white plastic carrier out and then the button will be free to come out (if it didn't already shoot out when it broke) Ensure you have the spring that sits in behind the button. And of course the broken bits may be floating around in there too.
I used a plastic screw that is used for PCB manufacture. I cut the thread area off so I had a 2mm shaft.
I drilled a hole in the back of the button to glue the shaft in to.
If you have access to really small screws, you can make a small metal piece to screw on to the back of the button. The piece to make for the back of the button needs to be able to fit inside the open area of the white carrier piece. Also it needs to fit into the hole the button goes through when re-assembling.
Shaft glued in place. I also chopped/filed part of the head off so it would fit inside the white carrier as mentioned above. (it's just hard to see)
Put the spring and button back into the switch
Hold it in place
Put the white carrier over the back of the button (and your manufactured stop)
All in place. Put the contacts back onto the springs area.
Clean the contacts area...just cos you've got it apart.
Place the cable and contact part back in place and press the metal tabs back into place.
Then test! Good luck.
