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Interior Light staying on

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Cameron 77C3:
With motor off and ignition key removed.

Disconnevt battery positive terminal.  Get a multimeter and set multimeter to 10amp DC scale.  Connect one wire of multimeter to positve terminal of battery and the other lead to for mentioned disconnected battery lead.  Read amps. If you read a number then something is pulling power.

If it's decimal number, eg 0.2, then it's your clock, alarm, etc.

If it's a whole number, eg 1.2, then its majour.

Start removing fuses one by one to help pin point the area.

Interiour lights are usually the problem.  I know my 77 also has a light above the spare wheel that comes on when the door is open.  If you have a faulty door switch.............

Also what about foot well courtsey lights???????

Let us know what ya find.

Mattrix:
Thanks again guys. Probably going to attack this today so hopefully something turns up, that I'm able to easily fix. Then again, if nothing turns up and it's not having the problem anymore, even better! :) Will let you know how I go

Mattrix:
Well, it appears that it's not happening anymore. I've had the battery hooked up since sunday and it hasn't lost a scrap of charge. and that's after i've fired the car up on sunday, and then left it sitting there since then. So, I think i'll just keep an eye on it but hopefully it's fixed itself... Oh and all the interior lights still work, funnily enough. Maybe it was just the switch playing up...

Oh well, now it's time to install the security system. fun!

Cameron 77C3:
Don't forget depending on your security system, if the door switch plays up again it could trip your alarm.

Just food for thought.

Cam

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