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Title: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: adi on 10 March 2012, 10:40:45

Hi

Does anyone know where the door kerb light switch is on a FL Omega... The light comes on, but doesnt turn off again...

Thanks


Adi...

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: RobG on 10 March 2012, 10:42:59

Works off the door pushswitch

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: adi on 10 March 2012, 10:49:13

Hi Rob

Thanks for the bits btw...

Where is the push switch??

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: RobG on 10 March 2012, 10:50:58

When you open the door, halfway down the hinge pillar, small black push switch, one on each door

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: adi on 10 March 2012, 11:04:59

Cheers Rob...  Cant believe I missed it...

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights-Wont Turn Off...
Post by: adi on 13 March 2012, 10:29:13

Anyone got an idea why the kerb light wouldnt switch off on one door... I swapped the push switch with another door and the switch is OK, and the light stays on even with the switch disconnected...

Thanks

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: feeutfo on 13 March 2012, 10:48:52

Open a door and the other door light comes on as well, even when closed iirc.

So wonder if there's more to it than the door switch? :-\

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: adi on 13 March 2012, 11:01:55

The kerb light doesnt come on when another door is opened or closed... it just stays on and wont switch off...

Its deffo not the switch... Double tested that...

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: jonny2112 on 13 March 2012, 14:41:36

Theres bound to be a fuse controlling the circuit - could it be pulled to test and maybe reset? Or is that a bit extreme?

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: adi on 13 March 2012, 15:42:00

hi jonny

Thanks... I could try that, but I would have thought a lighting circuit is kinda unintelligent 2 wire on or off so cant see what there is to reset... The other doors work fine... The glass was replaced a few years ago, and when I pulled the door card off a week ago, it didnt look like the windscreen guys were that good at their job...  left the tweeter hanging down inside the door, and made a mess of the plastic lining,,, I'm pretty sure they must have messed something up with the wiring... Had a peek around in there but all the wiring I could see looks ok...

Looks like I'll have to take a multimeter to it all...

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: jonny2112 on 13 March 2012, 16:29:48

Yeah you're right pal, though 'kinda intelligent' could refer to this poster too  :D
Clutching at straws really I suppose. Would be easier if it was permanently off! Strange that it's not simply the switch.

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: adi on 13 March 2012, 16:36:08

It is permanently off now...  the bulbs taken out...  :)

I'll have a proper check of the wiring when I get the chance...

Thanks anyway mate...

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: I_want_an_Omega on 16 March 2012, 17:01:32

I have a feeling that the switch actually has 2 contacts which both earth separately - i.e. 3 contacts in total. Sounds like one may have come off.

Gently remove one on the working side - pull it out and I bet it has 2 wires connected - the earth connection will be via the screw that holds in in place. I bet the other one only has a single wire connected with the other one floating around causing the symptoms you have been seeing.

Good luck

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights
Post by: LFF64 on 16 March 2012, 17:23:56

Might be worth checking the wiring to the offending lamp it may have been pulled and be earthing down to the body somewhere after the switch possibly as it goes into the door 

Title: Re: Door Kerb Lights- Fixed...!!!
Post by: adi on 16 March 2012, 19:25:11

Just before I bought the car at the end of its lease, (was a company car) I got them to fix everything up... That included the 2 front windows as they had little scratches on them... I also had some other minor stuff done at a main dealer, like a new clutch, complete new brakes, new tyres, new exhaust etc...  :)

Turns out the Windscreen company guys (One of the main big ones) should have been working in a butchers shop wearing cowboy hats, and not been let near anything car related... They trashed the plastic membrane liner on both front doors, left the passenger tweeter hanging inside the door, broke the plastic channel that clips the door card in at the top and used windscreen mastic to hold the door card in place...  Nice...

So I pulled the drivers door card off ... I metered the door switch and it had 12V...  Nothing at the light fitting tho... If I earthed the grey/white wire at the light end the light came on...On both front doors...

Did a continuity check on the grey/white wire and it was open...  Pulled the loom about and it intermittently lit the lights... So i freed the loom and pulled it out... There was the grey/white wire broken and intermittently making a connection as it shorted on the frame...

Soldered it up and sealed the loom with self amalgamating tape and its all working...

Open either door and both front kerb lights come on... And heres the good bit...  close the doors and the lights go out...  :)

What happened was the door loom was wedged under the windscreen channel thingy and when the channel was bolted up it mustve sheared the wire...

Robert...  Yes, the screw on the push switch provides the earth... The 2 front kerb light are connected so either door opening activates both front lights... The rear ones are independent...

Thanks for the input guys... And thanks to RobG who sent me a kerb light just incase mine was faulty...
 
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