interior light remains on until car is locked

[ccjazz]

Had a look at mine and the odometer stays lit for quite a while after closing the door (3:45), then goes off automatically. However, the interior light above rear view mirror and door (curb) lights go out after 30 seconds.

Have you tried cycling the 3 position switch on the interior light?

[southernstar]

Wow, I hadn't realized it was that long! Patience is not one of my virtues; heck, I don't even think it is a virtue. To me, patience is just a word to describe the exquisite agony of having to wait, sometimes almost interminably, for something that should happen immediately but for the sloth or incompentence of others. Anyway, enough of that. I'll try it again and report back. But 3:45 for the odometer?????

Brad

[southernstar]

Particlewave, I don't believe it is a microswitch for the doors precisely because the horn doesn't honk when I lock the car (as it will if a door, or the trunk or the armrest is not completely closed). Anyway, I went out to my car, put keys in the ignition, turned the keys on, then off and removed them without locking. I'll go back out in a couple of minutes and see if the lights/odometer went out.

Brad

[southernstar]

Thanks ccjazz, mystery solved! I went back out after 4 minutes and both the interior light and the odometer were off. Not sure how long it took (and for the reasons already indicated, I couldn't be bothered waiting beside my car for them to go out), but they did!

Maybe patience is a virtue afterall....... Nah!

Thanks again,

Brad