Deb425

I have a question about the 'button/switch panel' where the sway bar disconnect and axle lock are located.....can the blank/extra buttons be functional? The blank buttons cannot be pushed, but can they be 'assigned' another function such as additional lights? How would they be able to become 'pushed'?

Thanks!

yeahmooney

I've wondered this myself... for example can you get a heated seat switch like the Commander/Cherokee?

NTX JK

No they can't, unless some one makes a whole nother cluster with something built into it. I have taken it off before to see, and there is a circuit board that goes all the way across the back of all of the switches. Maybe if you have a very small switch, but I doubt anything will fit in there.

JeepaRoo

that button panel talks to the BCM module... if the function is not defined in the computer a button press would not do anything...

there are a lot of borrowed parts from the PT cruiser in our Jeeps, however I believe the heated seat buttons on a PT conflict with some of the axle and sway bar disconnect buttons on our JK so popping in the button would likely try and activate a device that doesnt exist rather than the heated seats....

the hardware is similar but the software is very different.... typically the way a multi-switch panel like that works is when a switch is pressed it sends a different resistance value through to the computer... each switch having its own and no combinations of switches turned on will add up to the same resistance value.. so thus the computer always know what is on and what is off..
-Christopher

ClaytonT

There're aftermarket buttons and switch panels that you can wire for whatever you want. Check out some of the sponsors' websites.

Here's one from Quadratec:

Daystar Switch Panel

centerfieldr162

If you cut them out and wire up a button, yes. Multiple people on the forum have fabbed up buttons in that place. Here's the link, the picture is at the bottom of page 2.

hxxp://www.jk-forum.com/showthread.php?112642-Rocker-switch-set-ups-and-locations/page2&highlight=switch+panel

VaNomad0530

Go to Ebay and do a search for it. There are a couple of dealers that sell the Mopar switch panel that goes in it's place.

sixt7gt350

Installing a switch in the factory switch panel is not impossible...



Then again, your Rubi switch panel is different.

enderwigg

Is this your jeep that you did this too? How much room is there to put a switch in? I would like to wire my fog switch there.

BigdaddyH

Here you go.

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...=1#post1512179