Interior Lighting Upon Exiting Vehicle
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Racer
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Interior Lighting Upon Exiting Vehicle
Finally got my 'new' '00 targa coupe back from the shop on Friday and now this. I shouldn't let it bother me cause it's not much of an issue but I'm just miffed because it's just one more thing I'll have to fight with this dealership to fix (even though I have a 3mo/3k b2b warranty and a GMPP).
When you pull your key out of the ignition at night the interior lights are supposed to come on, and they did on Friday and Saturday night and the first part of last night. Then, when I got home and pulled out the key, they simply did not come on. Nor did they when I tried it again this morning. The interior lights work fine with the rheostat. I thought it was due to some wierd combination between turning the ignition off and when it the sequence I pulled my emergency brake on. But I don't think so. Anyone experience this or will I have to fight again with the dealer?
When you pull your key out of the ignition at night the interior lights are supposed to come on, and they did on Friday and Saturday night and the first part of last night. Then, when I got home and pulled out the key, they simply did not come on. Nor did they when I tried it again this morning. The interior lights work fine with the rheostat. I thought it was due to some wierd combination between turning the ignition off and when it the sequence I pulled my emergency brake on. But I don't think so. Anyone experience this or will I have to fight again with the dealer?
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Racer
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No thoughts yet, huh? See, now I'm getting aggravated that it's gonna be another BS argument with the dealer over fixing something under my b2b 3mo warr. I guess what I'll do is run the car for another couple of weeks, if the snow around here cooperates, and then accumulate all of the issues and bring it in for just one big argument with the dealer.
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Racer
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This is one crazy issue. My car has spent no less than two and a half weeks in the dealer's shop for this one problem alone. They cannot figure out how to fix my exit lighting, not even with the help of the next level of GM support. They've checked the light sensor and replaced the BCM, to no avail. Two weeks ago, exacerbated, they gave me the car back and told me they'd be trying to get a GM Corvette engineer to come to the dealership to help them. They said it might take up to three weeks to set that up, but they didn't leave me with a warm fuzzy that GM would ultimately go along. How can a problem like this be so hard to fix? What would they have done with an '04 customer with the same problem, just tell him "sorry, we don't know how to fix it"?? Until you are shutting down at night and have no automatic interior lights, you don't realize how you miss them.
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I could be wrong but there is a pin in the ignition that senses the key, has that been checked? PM Bill Curley, he likes an electrical challange.
Good luck.
Good luck.
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Racer
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Originally Posted by screw991le
I could be wrong but there is a pin in the ignition that senses the key, has that been checked? PM Bill Curley, he likes an electrical challange.
Good luck.
Good luck.
