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Need some dome light help!


malacarr

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Age
63
City
Bermuda Run
State - Country
NC - USA
Vehicle Year
2003
Vehicle
Ford Ranger
Drive
2WD
Engine
2.3 (4 Cylinder)
Transmission
Automatic
Total Lift
nope
Total Drop
nope
Tire Size
factory spec...
Ok, so I needed to go to pull-a-part to get the dome light wire termination plastic pieces (mine actually disintegrated when I was removing the head liner). So, I think I wired them to the correct wires with the one's from pull-a-part when I spliced in the connectors, wire colors seem to match up. I have run a test light on them and the one that is BLUE (with blue arrow) is powered on when the door is open or you turn the dome light on. The GREEN (with the green arrow) has contant power. I put the BROWN arrow to indicate where the dome light housing gets grounded with a ground screw. So the problem is I don't want to over tighten the screws because of my fear they will break and come apart like my previous connectors. But there isn't any real consistancy as to how the switch works left, right or middle. I mean after hooking the housing up with the switch all the way to the driver's side the left map light will come on when I open the door, but if I close with a little normal force sometimes the dome light will come on and or maybe even the map light. It is just weird, looking for some advice/help... Thanks

zzDome light wires and housing.jpg
 
Does sound like a questionable ground in the housing itself.
 
Exercise the map light switches back and forth several times, and the headlight switch cluster illumination switch. Exercise it from dome to cluster dimmer several times and make sure the manual dome feature is off.
 

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