Need some dome light help!

[malacarr]

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

 

[SenorNoob]

Does sound like a questionable ground in the housing itself.

 

[franklin2]

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.

 

[malacarr]

Ok, starting to rethink this. I purchased a replacement dome lite from Amazon (yeah made in China) and I think the problem is the dome light housing switch or contacts. The reason that I say that is I also replaced the third brake lite at the same time (this one with a CARGO light). Anyway, I had to splice into the BLUE wire so the cargo light would work when turning on the dome light and also when the driver or passenger doors are open. That works fine, so I am thinking that it is a made in China problem. I found a new old stock OEM dome light in eBay and was thinking of going that route. Was looking for any feedback. Thanks...

 

[SenorNoob]

I'm sure it'll have a better switch and sturdier contacts. Go for it.

 

[malacarr]

I'm sure it'll have a better switch and sturdier contacts. Go for it.

Yeah, funny thing is my wife buys a lot of stuff off Amazon, and I end up have to do the returns for her (well at least drop them off anyhow). Well, this time I purchased the item, and she showed me how the return process is done along with the question you have to answer to do the return. One of them was what wasn't working and my reply was "THE LIGHTS". At some point they asked what I thought was wrong with item, to which I said it is probably just because it is a piece of junk from CHINA, maybe we should start building this stuff in the USA. There final response was, thank you for your input....