No brake lights + emergency light?!

DaveS said

Thanks TrailBeast!

i will take the steering wheel off, (car is in the driveway anyway) and fiddle with bending the metal pieces like you showed and see what happens.. do i only have to bend the 2 that you drew?

i already thought it would be something like that..

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I had to spread all four just slightly, but be kind of careful with the plastic nubs that locate the wire ends.
Those wires (fingers or whatever you want to call them) are spring steel and bending them right after the locating nubs of plastic is a little tough.
I used wire cutters to hold the wire and a pair of needle nose pliers to bend the ends.