Where do you like your dimmer switch

50C8DAN
50C8DAN Senior Contributor
edited November -1 in HUDSON
My wife and I disagree on where the best place for the dimmer switch is. I still think on the floor is the best place. My first car, a used '66 Chevelle had it there, my '79 Jeep J20 has it there and of course all of my older cars, including of course my Commodore 8, have it there but since about the late '70s the switch started moving to the column and now they all have it there. I just think it is more convenient on the floor.



What do you think? Just curious.

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  • MikeWA
    MikeWA Senior Contributor
    I like it right where its supposed to be- up against the left side of the floorboard. I still find myself stabbing around for it, even though they moved them to the column 25 years ago.
  • coverton
    coverton Expert Adviser
    And a lot easier to fix if broken,leave it alone. New ones are still avaliable just like in the 50's
  • Uncle Josh
    Uncle Josh Senior Contributor
    Actually, I need a 'Brighter Switch' not a dimmer one.



    However, I prefer it right down there where it belongs, to the left of the overdrive kickdown switch which is Southwest of the clutch pedal.



    This eliminates flooring the old Hudson to get out of OD, which ain't a good idea on these slippery roads.
  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    You're showing your age, Dan!;) All of us that grew up with the dimmer switch on the floor, I think still prefer it there, yours truly included. On the column is just one more thing to go wrong. I never understand why the car companies have to make it more and more involved with these "conveniences" that are 10 times more complicated and likely to break or wear out than they need to be.

    Just saw a protoype picture of a . . . Mercedes (or Lexus, maybe) that has no steering wheel. Just joysticks (all electronic, of course). I should've known that even the venerable steering wheel would someday make it to the "antique" pile and be weeded out.
  • mrsbojigger
    mrsbojigger Senior Contributor
    On the other car coming towards me! :D
    Peace,
    Chaz
  • Browniepetersen
    Browniepetersen Senior Contributor
    Russell, You are getting way too "Star War's" for my liking. The question got me to wondering where the dimmer switch is on my English Hudson. I am finding that there are a lot of items not where they should be i.e. steering wheel? I put directional signals on for safety reasons and they are controlled by a toggle switch. Now, Dimmer Switch; That is one that I will have to look into. As for me, it does not really matter. As long as I have one so that I can show my road rage to the fool that is bugging me and it is not serious enough to honk the horn. By the way, I wonder if the Horn button works on the English Hudson. It will be good to get it out of the paint shop, hook everything up, so I can figure these things out???
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    On the floor of course. Case in point - I had a 1968 International carry-all, dimmer switch on the floor. One evening, on the way back to southern Maine from Boston I lost my headlights - fortunately at the airport where I was picking my sister up. Figured out, in short order that it was in the dimmer switch. Salt and corrosion had done it it (one of the disadvantages of having the switch on the floor, at least in the Northern tier states). Ok, was able to remove the screws holding it to the floor board, pull it back into the cab and join enough wires together to get the lights working - al-be-it on hi-beam. Live with it folks, it's better than no lights. Next day I went to NAPA and got the good stuff - a new dimmer switch.



    My point is - go ahead and try this with the dimmer switch on the stalk (yeah, yeah - I know - salt and corrosion wouldn't affect a stalk on the tree). :D



    Hudsonly,

    Alex Burr

    Memphis, TN
  • TOM-WA-
    TOM-WA- Senior Contributor
    hMMMMMMM:



    Well the first place I like one is in the bedroom to create "THAT" special effect, then of course the Dining room is a natural and perhaps some mood lighting in the Living room and den.



    No need for one in the closets or the garage...I tried one on the garbage disposal but it really didn't work out very well...



    Actually I have replaced some of the Dimmer switches with the "CLAPPER" what a great invention







    REGARDS,





    TOM;););)
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    You people in that continent still have not advanced from the time when there was a resistance in the headlamp circuit, to "dim" them. From the late twenties, all cars have been fitted with dual filament bulbs, which when you press the "Dipswitch", the lights either dip down to low beam, or go up to high beam! So - I prefer my "dimmer" switch on any pre 1926 car which had the resistance, otherwise I will stick to the "dipswitch" on the floor, where it belongs!
  • Uncle Josh
    Uncle Josh Senior Contributor
    ...er, we use the term carefully on this continent, Geoff, as a dip could be in the seat.
  • TOM-WA-
    TOM-WA- Senior Contributor
    Geoff C., N.Z. wrote:
    You people in that continent still have not advanced from the time when there was a resistance in the headlamp circuit, to "dim" them. From the late twenties, all cars have been fitted with dual filament bulbs, which when you press the "Dipswitch", the lights either dip down to low beam, or go up to high beam! So - I prefer my "dimmer" switch on any pre 1926 car which had the resistance, otherwise I will stick to the "dipswitch" on the floor, where it belongs!



    AHH...you have to be carefull here in the states when using words such as

    Dipswitch etc.



    I was driving with a friend in the Hudson one day talking about the DIPSTICK and he thought I was refering to the device to measure engine oil level. WHAT A DIPSTICK!!!!:confused::confused::confused:
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    What about the Irishman who asked for a new dipstick, because the old one didn't reach the oil any more?
  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    Geoff C., N.Z. wrote:
    What about the Irishman who asked for a new dipstick, because the old one didn't reach the oil any more?


    HaHaHaHa!!! LOL! I'm gonna leave that one alone, though . . .
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