How To Deactivate Interior Courtesy Lights???
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Heel & Toe
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How To Deactivate Interior Courtesy Lights???
I've got a 1998 C5 that I like to leave the door open at car shows to display the interior modifications. But can't figure out how to turn the interior courtesy lights off so that the battery doesn't run down.
(Electronic control modules are great technology - but the old door jam switches were easier).
I thought he mirror vanity lights/interior courtesy lights would automatically go out after a few minutes with the door open in the day light - but not mine. Don't know if there is some "programming" process that can turn off the interior lights?
Hope someone can help!
(Electronic control modules are great technology - but the old door jam switches were easier).
I thought he mirror vanity lights/interior courtesy lights would automatically go out after a few minutes with the door open in the day light - but not mine. Don't know if there is some "programming" process that can turn off the interior lights?
Hope someone can help!
Race Director
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St. Jude Donor '03
Why not get a set of door props?
They hook onto the hoop then fit into the latch onto the door. They are a great accessory for car shows.
A couple sources...
http://www.rpidesigns.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=597
http://creativeenginecovers.com/c5chrome4.html
They hook onto the hoop then fit into the latch onto the door. They are a great accessory for car shows.
A couple sources...
http://www.rpidesigns.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=597
http://creativeenginecovers.com/c5chrome4.html
Le Mans Master
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From: Memphis Tennessee
OK, being the paranoid, non-believer that I am I went to check mine.
I put my AE in shows and always have the driver's door open to show "something" I have put in the seat. Sometimes the 50th book, or one time just a poster for CorvetteForum that I had made.
Long story short: mine goes OUT after just a few minutes. I am not sure why yours does not.
Good luck
I put my AE in shows and always have the driver's door open to show "something" I have put in the seat. Sometimes the 50th book, or one time just a poster for CorvetteForum that I had made.
Long story short: mine goes OUT after just a few minutes. I am not sure why yours does not.
Good luck
Racer
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From: Roswell GA
There is a max-mini fuse in the passenger floorboard that controls the interior lights. It is called the misc illumination fuse. It is a big square that you can pull. Check the fuse cover and it will tell you which one it is. I want to say number 37, but that is just from memory so don't quote me 
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Heel & Toe
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Deactivating Interior Lights
OK .....pulling the fuse is clearly one solution.
For you guys who's interior lights go out on sometype of timer.....any idea if that timer was used in the 1998 model? Anyone with a C5 shop manual know if the interior/courtesy light timer is somehow "programmable"?
I've parked my 1998 outside in the sunlight, left the door open for up to 30 minutes, and the interior lights continued to burn & never went out.
Any thoughts????????
For you guys with the aftermarket door-bar.......when your door is held open with the bar, are your interior/courtesy on initially?? Do they go out after the car sits with the door open a short period of time??
It would seem that the door-bar would create the same courtesy lights on problem as just leaving the door open by itself???
Any thoughts??????
Thanks for all your input!!
For you guys who's interior lights go out on sometype of timer.....any idea if that timer was used in the 1998 model? Anyone with a C5 shop manual know if the interior/courtesy light timer is somehow "programmable"?
I've parked my 1998 outside in the sunlight, left the door open for up to 30 minutes, and the interior lights continued to burn & never went out.
Any thoughts????????
For you guys with the aftermarket door-bar.......when your door is held open with the bar, are your interior/courtesy on initially?? Do they go out after the car sits with the door open a short period of time??
It would seem that the door-bar would create the same courtesy lights on problem as just leaving the door open by itself???
Any thoughts??????
Thanks for all your input!!
Le Mans Master
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From: Waldorf MD
15 minutes is correct, here is passage from 1998 Owner's manual:
Inadvertent Load Control
If the underhood lamp, vanity mirror lamps, reading
lamps, console or glove box lamps are accidentally left
on, the power load will time out after 15 minutes. To
reset it, all of the above lamps must be turned off or the
key must be in the ON position.
Inadvertent Load Control
If the underhood lamp, vanity mirror lamps, reading
lamps, console or glove box lamps are accidentally left
on, the power load will time out after 15 minutes. To
reset it, all of the above lamps must be turned off or the
key must be in the ON position.
