Relocating the Lighting Switch on my Mahindra Max-24

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Skypilota72

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While I'm only 6' foot tall and skinny, I find my left knee constantly contacting the light switch which usually turns off the lights or activates the turn signals. I suppose I could drill new holes in the seating plate so that the seat goes back a bit farther, or relocating the entire lighting switch to the blank pad directly above where it currently is mounted. As the tractor is brand new, I don't want to harm my warranty or worse. Any ideas?
 
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Without a photo I’m not sure of the design. But if it’s like mine (which I have hit) you may be able to turn it 90° or 180° to get the little arm facing in or up.
 
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I have the same or similar switch and location on my machine. Except the turn doesn’t stick out past the dash like that.
 
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You can pop the switch out fairly easily. Use a plastic dash tool or small screwdriver to gently get it away from the surface of the dash. Get your fingers behind it some and pop the switch out. Rotate the switch 180 where the offending levers point up/right and pop it back in. You might have a little trouble getting used to the backwards operating of the controls now, but I never use mine. Only thing I regularly use is the center flasher button. I grew up using hand signals for the turn function on vehicles, and don't work at night enough to have it bother me. My first ' fix ' was to cut off some of the length of the levers, you can do that, too. I think all the Mitsubishi built Mahindras have this stupid light control located right in front of your left knee. You could mount it in the open area right above it [ that hunk of plastic snaps out, too, I think ]. Leave the old hole open or mount something unoffensive in the old spot.

Here is how I butchered my switch over a period of time, finally does not bother me anymore, what is left of it... [ CAuTION, gruesome ... ]
 

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Another thing I did on my little 1526 was change where the seat bolts onto the seat brackets. I moved them one set of holes so the seat was rearward some. Took the seat pin out, unbolted the brackets. I think I drilled out the existing holes a little, painted the brackets, and reassembled. That helped a lot with the getting in/out/knee problem. [ after I had hacked on my switch ] Don't know about your tractor, but if it is a Mitshubishi , it may have a similar seat setup.
 

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