Interior cockpit lighting
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Intermediate
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From: Round Rock TX
Its a 1973 vette. I thought the same thing, however the lights stay on continually and after a couple of days the battery goes dead.
Last edited by GlennT73; Sep 6, 2011 at 03:44 PM.
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Hi Glenn,
Still the obvious... does your car have a 'door ajar' warning light? If it does you'll have four switches, the interior lights are the switches on the hinge pillar, not the lock pillar.
Regards,
Alan
Still the obvious... does your car have a 'door ajar' warning light? If it does you'll have four switches, the interior lights are the switches on the hinge pillar, not the lock pillar.
Regards,
Alan
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From: Round Rock TX
This is very helpful information. Thank you so much. I actually thought the switches were just the opposite. I'll go back and check the hinge side switches to see if they are both working properly. They both move in and out freely so maybe a wire came disconnected.
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Okay so I pulled out both switches on the hindge pillars and the one on the drivers side has a hot and neutral wire, 1-black &1- white, but the passenger side only has one neutral wire/white. Should there be two wires on both switches??
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No your wires are right. The black on the drivers door side is for the key buzzer.
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Grounding the white wires turns on your courtesy lights, so if one of those white wires is grounded the lights will stay on. For instance , if the white wire at the light in the cargo area is grounded the lights will come on. Happy hunting.
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Did you try depressing the [newly found] correct switches to see if the lights go off? As someone else mentioned, there are some rubber 'bumpers' that stick on the mating part of the door and actually make contact with those switches. If one of the bumpers fell off, the lights would stay on.
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From: Newington Ct
ya know, I had the opposite problem with my interior light door switches where they wouldnt go on when the door opened. I moved the plunger on the switch in and out by hand and that didnt work. I had power to the switch. I took and rotated the plunger about 90 degrees and whala, it worked. Its been working ever since
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Check that your courtesy lights on both sides are secured to their respective metal brackets. Losing the ground path will cause this