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NBRettie18 · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:29 am Post subject: no lights when drivers door open

The lights inside my car and the trunk do not come on when the drivers door is open but they do come on when the passengers door is open. Both of the lights work fine just now for the drivers door. Anyone had this problem?
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morghen · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 9095 Location: Romania

its probably the door switch...check it...replace it.
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Rasta Monsta · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 11733 Location: PacNW

Yep, I have had 2 924s and two bad driver's side switches.
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NBRettie18 · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject:

where is the door switch located? Is it the switch that makes the ding noise to let you know the doors open? cause if so that works, at least it makes the ding noise.
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Eagle924S · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:32 am Post subject:

Sometimes the lights do not come on when i open the drivers door. Sometimes they do. The switch in the door sometimes get stuck.
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NBRettie18 · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:16 am Post subject:

Yea mine never come on with the drivers door though, but they always come on with the passenger side. Also when the key is in the ignition the warning alram noise does come on when the drivers door is open.
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Smoothie · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:44 am Post subject:

I don't know if the 924S wiring is the same, but on my '82, the left door switch is a double-pole (DPST) design with one pole operating the light and the other pole triggering the seatbelt warning (4th page of the '82 wiring diagrams). -So it could still be a half bad switch or a problem with the wiring to half of it. Usually a simple switch like that can be taken out, cleaned with sandpaper (the contacts), lubed with silicone dielectric gel and put back together.
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flosho · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:01 am Post subject:

In my car, the center dome light right by the windshield, has a switch, you can switch it so its always on, on when door is open and never on. It couldn't be that the light switch is in the wrong spot?

It wouldn't be unheard of that it switched itself, its happend to me.

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Vince Ponz · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 3581 Location: Florida

You can always exit out the pass side.
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Mike924 · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 2601 Location: IoW UK

The switch is located in the front door jamb. It looks like a small oval metal plate with a rubber surround, held in place by a singe cross-head screw.

If your car has a door open warning alarm, the switch will be a two-pole job as Smoothie says. If you're not fussed about having a door alarm (and it's not a legal requirement where you are), you can swap the two wires at the back of the switch, but new switches are cheap and readily available, as they're used on a lot of VW cars.
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Eturbo924 · Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 2212 Location: Londonderry NH

Also some times the area corrodes a bit and the connection is not as good as it should be. Take the switch out. Wire brush the screw that is used to mount it and clear the area around the screw hole of any corrosion and such. Also any excessive paint. Clean all the wire connections and put it back in. See if it works then. I solved on that way.
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morghen · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 9095 Location: Romania

oh..the damn thing stoped working over here too !

i'll go check it right now and then post if i find the problem.
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