And the culprit is?

[Jaxonalden]

First thing...did you get any last night? :dance:

[Burg Boxster]

most likely culprit... headlight switch

second likely culprit... ignition switch but my $ is on the above

both are common failures and easy DIR R&R jobs. Search on either here and you will get lots of info.

Good luck

[Jager]

Don’t know what model year you have but I looked at the schematics for model year 2001 and a couple of areas you need to look at are the hi/low switch and the on/off switch. I would exercise the hi/low switch to see if you can recreate the same problem again.

[peterbrown77]

Well, the ignition switch has been giving me grief - not recognizing that I've removed the key, for example. I reinsert it and remove it again and it stops dinging.

[Neekk1]

this happens to my 01 basically i start the car and the key isnt going back to the on position and therefore makes the lights not work. I start my car then manually put the key to the on position by moving it to the left a little til it clicks. Doing this usually helps when i take the key out you hear the clicking sound and the radio goes off. Sometimes i have to put the key back in and hear the click then remove.