What in the world are these things????

Hondafreak333

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so im unsure of what these things are. the first is a switch and small led in the dash board located where the clutch start cancel switch would be if it was a manual trans and no it was not converted from a manual either. the light never comes on and the switch dosent do anything either be it in park, drive, running, or stopped. the second thing is a mysterious black box that is mounted in the rear storage compartment on the drivers side. it has connections on it like ive never seen on a car before let alone a 93 4runner. it has one cable that looks like a 20 pin data cord like on the back of an old desktop computer, another that looks like a network cable for an internet connection, and a third connector that looks like a antena wire. im baffled, what on earth are these???
 

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Most of the time when you see some sort of random on/off switch next to a small light, it's for an alarm. The on/off switch is a common switch used for older alarms for a valet bypass which will usually turn off certain features of the alarm. The light would be a warning light to show that the vehicle has an active alarm.
 
hmmmm so maybe the previous owner had a carphone back before cell phones lol. as for the light and switch the light never comes on with the switch in either position and i dont see any alarm box or anything non stock under the dash or seats so i dont know.
 
Probably removed the guts of the alarm system but didn't want to leave a couple holes in the dash to sell. Lights and switches can be easily replaced. I'd replace them with some ARB locker switches (hint, hint--LOL).
 
Could also be a remote start system. Look under the dash. There might be a little box hanging there with a bunch of wires coming out of it.
 

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