Orange light to lower top with broken boot/trunk microswitch

[turtoni]

Hi Buddies and Mates,

I have the broken microswitch in the trunk/boot problem and see the how to fix it pictures on the Mr.Carfix repository and see shipkiller writing about jumping the microswitch with a small wire but I guess i'm a little slow: do I just wrap a little thin piece of wire around the prongs that connect to the mircoswitch cable? Or is there an even easier way of jumping the microswitch?

I bought a new microswitch cable but i'm thinking about just leaving it jumped, so I don't have to crawl around in the back to fix this again.

What do you guys think?

http://mrcarfix.com/fix/2005/BMW/Z4/How+to+Fix+your+Z4+Microswitch?f=1&m=117

 

[fixit man]

Hi, just follow mrCarfix procedure, to refit the switch lever or replace the switch, whatever is necessary.

You can bridge the switch with a wire across the two connections to see if it's the switch at fault !

 

[turtoni]

Ok, i put it in and i'm having to duck tape down the little metal arm to activate the microswitch but it works otherwise. I guess the lowered trunk isnt setting off the microswitch for some reason. Does anybody know what this might be?