I replaced the stop lamp switch; I think it was bad as one set of contacts was permanently open.

Before I put the switch in, I started the car to move it; at this time the idle was up and down between 500 and 1500 and the engine would not go any faster than this. After I installed the switch, behavior was basically same, but gradually cleared up as I let it run, although I don't think the car has 100% power, yet. I cleared all the codes from pins 8 and 14 (there was an additional code on pin 8, code 8 which is related to the idle speed/cc device) and drove around the block. No codes came back, yet....

How does the car "know" that the stop light switch is fixed? Is it by clearing the codes, or does the car have to be driven a bit?

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Paul

1989 560SL
1987 300SDL
1987 300TD
1983 BMW 633CSi
1972 280SE 4.5