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This has, naturally, been bugging me since I discovered it, a blank switch on my Base '08 TL.
I shoulda posted a picture of it, but bear with me, since we all know the 3G so well should be able to figure it out. It's part of the cluster that contains the side-mirror controls/heaters and VSA button, which is on the lower left-hand side of the dash next to the wheel:
On the right side of this cluster (not shown in the picture) is a blank insert. On another car I'd shrug, but everybody knows the TL came loaded, except for Navi, which mine doesn't have. Ergo, that blank insert must have something to do with the navi system, but what? Or is it something else?
nothing was really meant to go there, many folks use that spot to mount a modified VSA switch to control stuff such as DVD player on Navi, stealth radar detector install power switch, etc.
Nothing goes there. I have a 08 TL w/ navi and it also has the blank cut out. My moms 07 Accord also has the blank cut out. In her car we used the blank cut out to add a fog light switch and wired up OEM fog lights for her car because they didn't come with it.
In the TL many people use it for many different things.
Thanks for the replies, that's interesting. I wonder how this blank switch happened? Perhaps Acura intended to put the foglights there, but ended up putting them on the stalk instead? Or maybe when the engineers designed that cluster, they added another button just in case and because of symmetry?
Either way, that's pretty handy to have a blank cut out, gives an owner lots of flexibility.
