Hi. In my '02 I pushed the hazard lights and I didn't push exactly in the center the plastic post on the backside broke. The triangle still dangles in the right spot, my mechanics think it broke and bent when I pushed forward so now it looks fine but you can't use the hazards and it's too risky to install a toggle switch there because of all the wiring passing through. I've heard I can get one on E-bay, which I'm wary of, but am I ordering a switch or a plastic triagle with a post affixed to the back in the exact center? If I could pop it off safely from it's dangling attachment I would. Then I could see what's going on, maybe I could snip it from behind pulling one edge up....but I don't want to hurt the wiring just trying to get teh stupid plastic trangle unattached!

I live on an extremely dangerous stetch of hwy with little to no shoulder and enough traffic for a seven lane freeway to Canada...only there's no room to widen it. Nearly everyone in th county lives on a dirt rd off of that busy Hwy 95 so traffic is stopped ahead of you while someone waits to turn left or it has slowed greatly while someone turns right, but people die every year within 5 miles of my house and usually MUCH closer. I needed hazards as I was on black ice and the people behind me weren't so I did the headlights thing, but that's not easy when you're ino black ice and trying to stya on the road.

Then Spokane where I like to visit my friends a couple of hours away happens and I come up on someone broken down in a lane or a an accident and we are slowed to a crawl or at a dead stop but there aren't flares out behind us yet, just traffic doing 75. I think it might even be illegal not to have them. I need them. Does anyone have experience with this?

 

I replaced my dash bezel on my 2003 SS and salvaged the hazard button assembly - as long as your dash bezel isn't broken, the part should work for you. My husband wants me to get rid of junk, so I'd just ask for cost of shipping.

 

I'm such a moron I had to look up "dash bezel", lol.. I actually found a video for Monte Carlo dash bezel replacement. I wouldn't have known to look if it weren't for this reply, thank you! Previously I had thought my turn signals' occasional failure was simply due to it being cold. I thought wrong, because the dude in the video is replacing the bezel because of the occasional blinker failure, it's one unit. My bezel was going bad before I went and broke that Hazard button.

The guy says the button itself just pops off, and that the replacement unit comes with a new one. That's super cool, since I don't know if it's broken plastic on the back of the button or broken plastic on the front of the bezel, or both. While it's tempting to pop that hazard button off and then try to re-affix it, I don't want to get even one drop of super glue in there or damage the other wiring by trying to activate the switch with my bare finger. Plus the dude doesn't say it just pops off until he's talking about finishing up the job, so it may be something that can only be done after following all the steps to gain access....like the fuse panel, the 7mm screw there, the tabs fastening the dash under the steering wheel, the other 7mm screw and the little cover surrounding the ignition itself.
I might seriously damage my car trying to buy myself some time, and, it looks as though the replacement bezel may not be nearly as expensive as I'd feared. It also is such an easy job for this guy with the 7mm screwdriver and the little mini-crowbar looking thing he loosens the panels with in order to protect the delicate plastic tabs. I could actually do it myself if I had a little crowbar thingie and a metric screwdriver....I'll bet the guys at my shop have both, not to mention plenty of experience popping panels without breaking them.. This will be fast, and they don't even make me pay a half-hour minimum.
Thank you so much for your reply, as well as your kind offer....if I find that the replacement bezel doesn't come with a new button after all, I would very much like to have yours and will gladly pay for the shipping.