interior light problem

[taurus1911]

i've got this problem with my interior lights, whenever i open the driver side door, the automatic lights dont always come on. sometimes it will be several days of darkness, then sometimes they work constantly. however if i open any other door, the lights always come on. anybody had this problem before?

 

[Ryno5150]

Interior lights

I have also noticed that my interior lights don't come on all the time when you open the door. I found the issue to be with the door open contacts located on both sides of the dashboard. You can jiggle the plunger contact switch and the lights will flicker. My guess is that the switch is breaking down internally. Check that out and see if yours does the same.

 

[sasquatch094]

My button on the light switch panel doesnt work. the dome override button. idk it doesnt pop out, but it doesnt seem like that would be your case... hmm beats me..

 

[mygreen98]

most likely bad switch on dash. they are poor design.

 

[TahoeGoBoom]

yea, its more than likely the switch for the door trigger. mine on the passenger side is bad..

anyone kno where i can get replacements???

 

[sasquatch094]

do you think LMCtruck.com will have em, if so look through there..

 

[TahoeGoBoom]

hmmm, anyone know the "official" name of the switch..?

 

[y0diggity]

It's called a door jamb switch. I just got done replacing both of mine. They're at Advance Auto for as little as $3.99. Not the easiest little buggers in the world to install though. My advice to you - don't worry about tearing the old ones up, you're not going to re-use them anyway, and there's about no way in the world that you're getting them to come out of the hole the same way they went in.
Pop the heads off of them, shove them back into the dash and tear them up with some needle-nose. Then once you've got them broken down small enough to poke back through the dash-hole, you can remove what's left from the plug wire, plug in the new one and pop it in.

 

[wwcnd]

is there some kind of setting or other trick to the interior lights? mine only come on when you hit the button on the remote. no lights come on when any of the doors is opened. 04 tahoe z71


Nevermind, Im an idiot. I found it

 

[992door]

is there some kind of setting or other trick to the interior lights? mine only come on when you hit the button on the remote. no lights come on when any of the doors is opened. 04 tahoe z71


Nevermind, Im an idiot. I found it

You hit the dome override button didnt you :gy: