Interior Light: Door Open

[FormerSmurf]

Give me all of your advice!

My interior light works when set in the "On" position, and also "Off".

It doesn't work when any of the doors are open. I've taken the light unit out, the switch is good, if a little agricultural in design.

If it failed to illuminate when a single door was opened, I'd suspect the door pin switch. None of the doors will trigger it. The 10A fuse is all good.

Any ideas?

 

[Mobieus_uk]

does either of the interior lights work? as mine got one for the boot area as well

 

[arcascomp]

I assume you mean that the main switch will turn the light on or off, but it never illuminates the car in the 'door' position?

If so, that's exactly what mine does - I suspect the timer unit mounted directly above the fuse box as this contols the dimming of the lights after a door is closed. Mine used to work fine, then on day the fuse went. After replacing the fuse, the light will only ever work with the switch being moved to the one position.

The main reason I suspect the timer unit is that my central locking is also mucking about - I can lock everything fine, but the unlock (be that key fob, key or interior switches) will never unlock the whole car. One day I'll get down to checking it properly and/or replacing it. Primera ones are the same I believe.

There is a section in the manual which describes a procedure to test all of the things this unit senses/controls - last time I tried this mine failed to detect the state of the rear passenger doors, even though at that point the interior lights would come on when these doors opened.

 

[FormerSmurf]

The light at the rear doesn't come on in any situation, I should check the bulb!

My central locking works fine since I re-programmed the fob. It is set on the NATS anti-hijack, so upon unlock with fob it will open drivers door only, a second press does the remainder. Good for leaving the missus outside in the rain...

I'll give the unit a test at the weekend when I tweak the torsion bars I think

 

[Mobieus_uk]

the wiring diagram points to the light timer,
regarding the central locking you know that a single press only unlocks the drivers door and a double press unlock the rest of the car

 

[FormerSmurf]

How much are these timer type jobbies, and can I fit it with a hangover?

The Haynes manual "spanner gauge" is redundant. I base the complexity of tasks on how much I can drink the night before and still successfully accomplish after chowing down on a cold kebab 8 hours later.