Brake light switch lasts 2 years. Normal?

[94burb]

My brake light switches last about two years and then need to be replaced again. Is this normal or do I have another issue?

 

[someotherguy]

These switches look to me like they cost about 10 cents to build. Try buying the best brand you can find and expect that it will still suck.

Richard

 

[DRAGGIN95]

Maybe I have just been lucky, but I have owned 15+ GMT 400 trucks and SUV's and I have never had to replace a brake switch, and I have driven a few of them several hundred thousand miles.

 

[Coveman]

My 99 K1500 is still on its original. Are they coming apart on you / getting corroded / some other?

 

[someotherguy]

Maybe I have just been lucky, but I have owned 15+ GMT 400 trucks and SUV's and I have never had to replace a brake switch, and I have driven a few of them several hundred thousand miles.

There was actually a TSB (pretty sure it wasn't a recall) on the 94-up style switch quite a while back, for premature failure. Can't remember what year that came out, but one can assume that shortly afterwards production changed over to an improved switch.

I've replaced quite a few, but not on every truck I've owned.

Richard