[nukewater]

Mine is shot, and im going to ask a friend to grab me one from a salvage in his town.. around 1 hour from me. I have 1995 Escort GT, which years and models will be the same?

 

[2redscorts]

Hey Nuke!
My 91 and my 94 have the same switch, but the dash was changed in 95, and then again in 97, and it doesn´t look like the older switch would work in your car. Not sure about the 3g switch tho. I´m pretty sure you need a defroster switch from a 95 or 96. Won´t matter if it´s an LX or GT because the switch is the same.

Good luck and happy hunting!

 

[James92Scort]

yeah my switch needs to be replaced cause I need to hold it down before it works.

 

[nukewater]

ya ditto.. the latch seems to be stuck.. and we just got 18 cm of snow last night :S!

 

[siragan]

You could always just buy a switch... like a normal flippero kinda switch...

 

[MadBrad]

You could try to rebuild the switch. That´s what I did. It was pretty easy. Mine is a 93 though. It would blow the fuse every time I turned it on. I took it apart and just cleaned out all the soot, and now it is perfect again. There is a little spring that alternates between holning the button in and not holding it in. It might have fallen loose. If any part is broken in there, though, you probably can´t fix it.

 

[nukewater]

hmm.. thats a GOOD idea siragan.. i already have 3 switches in my dash

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I might as well just hook that up... is it just an on off switch?>

 

[2redscorts]

Yeah Nuke, unlike every other car I´ve owned, the scort has a simple on/off switch for the defrost. I mean the switch doesn´t leave it on for a while and then automatically turn it off. Should be easy to wire it to your other switch once you get at it.