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This morning I turned the headlights to auto and then back to off. This turned off the map lamps. Same didn't work last night. Who knew?
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The most likely cause is the dashboard dimmer switch being left in the max mode. This permanently puts on all the interior lights. Move the switch out of this max position. You should feel the switch rocker out of maximum position. If the door is open you won’t see any change. But with the door closed the max position will put on all interior seating floor lights and the map lights. With it off they will go out when the door is closed.Just got home and it seems the map lights aren't shutting off. Any ideas on how to fix it so I dont wake up with a dead battery?
Thanks! #newowner
Thanks so much. This problem just occurred to my 03 and your suggestion to turn the panel dimmer control down a bit solved the problem. Ray Hoyle 2-31-22Another thing that has worked for me is to turn down the brightness of the dashboard lights just a smidge. A minute or two after you close your driver's door, the lights should go off. Hope this helps.
I purchased mine 3 weeks ago, 2002 Thunderbird. Just finished having this problem at night time. After messing with it a bit I thought what good are these useless lights anyway so I took a pair of electrical snips and cut one of the wires. Problem solved while I was 600 miles from home.Purchased car yesterday. Today we were playing with all the buttons (takes about one minute. yay!). After turning on the map lamps, they won't turn off again. Both ends of the push button travel are lamps-on. I did notice that they go off about half way through the push button travel, so I've scotch taped them at the halfway point for now. Is this a computer reset issue?
If I can't figure it out, is it safe to drive around with the appropriate fuse out? Not sure what else won't work on the car without the fuse.
And just to prove that I used to listen to Click and Clack - the color is black.
The same thing happened to me. Interior map lights wouldn't go off. After what I saw rjdmonda said, I turned switch to low for interior brightness and when I shut the door and locked the car, the map lights went off in about 5 seconds. Thank you for that helpful hint!The most likely cause is the dashboard dimmer switch being left in the max mode. This permanently puts on all the interior lights. Move the switch out of this max position. You should feel the switch rocker out of maximum position. If the door is open you won’t see any change. But with the door closed the max position will put on all interior seating floor lights and the map lights. With it off they will go out when the door is closed.
If there is a switch on the map light and you turned it on it might not go off and won’t be overridden until you switch it off.