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Interior lighting not activated by doors

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Old Nov 27th, 2019, 14:18   #21
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Switch towards the front of the car I believe means the light goes on when a door is open but goes off when closed, switch backwards on all the time, middle off.
Unfortunately with the switch in the forward position the light stays on constantly even with the doors closed. I'm guessing the door switches which effectively break the circuit arent doing that so the light stays on. Ive near enough exhausted what I can do apart from changing the switches.
I'm guessing it will be something simple.
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Old Nov 27th, 2019, 18:26   #22
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Switch towards the front of the car I believe means the light goes on when a door is open but goes off when closed, switch backwards on all the time, middle off.
Unfortunately with the switch in the forward position the light stays on constantly even with the doors closed. I'm guessing the door switches which effectively break the circuit arent doing that so the light stays on. Ive near enough exhausted what I can do apart from changing the switches.
I'm guessing it will be something simple.
Thanks
Joe
But, as quoted above, at first you said:

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Hello all.
Hopefully you can help with an annoying problem. My car is a 91 240se estate.
The interior light doesn't come on when you open the doors although the light does work when you put it in the on position, to the front of the car and to the rear of the car.
The boot opening does activate the resr light.
I guessed there was an issue with the door switches.
The passenger switch has two wires going to it but the drivers switch only one black and blue wire. Is this normal or is the drivers side door switch missing a wire?
I've cleaned them up but other than that I'm guessing replacements. I haven't checked the rear door switches yet but opening the rear doors does nothing either.
Has anyone got any ideas?
Many thanks in advance
Joe
Is the difference just that you are understanding or describing the light switch differently?u, fit the rear interior light in place of the front one?

Connect only the power to the front interior light, and run a wire to earth (to imitate or emulate a good working door switch), using various light switch positions?

&c. &c.

Good luck with this.

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Anyways, someone mentioned the possibility of a short circuit?

And what happens if you, can yo
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Old Nov 27th, 2019, 18:34   #23
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My post above is a mess and I can't get edit to work.
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Old Nov 27th, 2019, 19:58   #24
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No problem. Mine are a bit confusing. Basically the front light just stats on regardless unless it's in the off position (middle). I'll try swapping the front and rear light over and see if I have any joy.
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Swapping the lights had no effect. It's going to the mechanics
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Have you checked the three wires on the passenger side switch? I have a distant memory that when it was wrongly connected it caused problems but can't remember what! I know that if one of the wires was disconnected one of the door switches didn't function. Worth investigating perhaps if you haven't already.

Do you have a wiring diagram? I found some quite good ones somewhere and leave them in the workshop manual whenever the car goes to the garage, saved them quite a bit of searching sometimes. I could scan the relevant one and post it here if that's any help.
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Hello. Thankyou for that. The passenger door switch only has two wires going to it. Maybe that's the issue. I have the wiring diagram. Thankyou anyway.
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Hello. Thankyou for that. The passenger door switch only has two wires going to it. Maybe that's the issue. I have the wiring diagram. Thankyou anyway.
Did you say at some point that there are three terminals on the LH front switch? If my memory is accurate a wire might have dropped down inside the pillar, you could fish around and see if you find one maybe. If there is one it could definitely be at least part of the problem, it certainly was for my car.

Edit - Just re-read your original post, and I think my memory is faulty! I knew there was a difference between the LH front and the other doors, but it is, as you say, two on the left and one on the others. Are the two connected correctly?

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Thanks. I'll look tomorrow. Have only ever seen two wires on the passenger side which are connected to the two terminals on the switch
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Yeah they are both good but looking closely the passenger switch is broken so I'm guessing that's the issue
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