peter twort (203.206.21.228) - Mon Mar 6 05:57:17 2006

Greetings from Australia. I live on North Stradbroke Island just off Brisbane in Queensland.

I need a bit of advise. found you on the net. My father just bought a 1997 Explorer today. He got it home and found that the interior lights front and back (Not the map lights) are on all the time. He has looked but can not work out what to do, the book says you turn them off on the dimmer switch but that does not seem to work.

Could you offer any suggestions, poor old bugger, I can't help him as he lives on the mainland and I can not get over to have a look.

any advise will be gratefully received, plse e-mail me.

Reply #1 ahmed (129.250.211.8) - Thu Jul 10 12:03:15 2008

i have ford explorer limited 1996, suddenly the interior light are not coming off.

Reply #2 Johnny (216.239.87.143) - Mon Jul 14 23:28:28 2008

ONE OF THE DOOR LATCH DOME LAMP SENSORS IS BUSTED

SOMETIMES LUBRICANT IN THE LATCH WILL HELP (10%)

Turn Ign. Key ON but do not start.

Wait 20 seconds

Open Each door, check for CHIME.

The one that wont chime is the suspect.

Include the rear GLASS and rear liftgate as well;

they have sensors in the LATCHes too.

Its NOT a tradition Close-to-ground circuit;

its actually two wires, closed-on-door/glass closed

opening door panels is a bit of labour,

short the wires and then open/close one other door

and the GEM will reset the condition; then you can

tape up the connection to the bad switch

NEW DOOR LATCH is only fix solution $109 CDN here

and it was a 1999 2Dr Sport Explorer on the passenger

side which I decided I do without dome light sensor.

Reply #3 John Wahl (69.1.40.75) - Sun Aug 17 15:19:12 2008

My 2004 Explorer Eddie Bauer dome light console has fallen about 1/2" on the forward end. How do I replace the clips and how do I get to them?

Reply #4 rennie russo (72.70.29.162) - Wed Dec 31 01:05:36 2008

my 02 explorer sport is in need of a replacement bulb for the

on/off switch indicator for the cruise ctl. located on steering wheel ....can't find anywhere, except ford. they only want

$ 76.00

thanks.rennie

Reply #5 Shirley Marsh (216.12.18.89) - Mon Feb 23 12:25:56 2009

My vehicle's dome light is taking longer to go out, also door ajar light stays on for awhile after driving down the road a ways. Also now when I try to manually unlock the back doors with the button on the drivers door it will not work also it won't unlock whe using the remote either. not sure what is going on.

Reply #6 Joan Prather (96.28.163.66) - Sun Apr 19 21:00:22 2009

I have a 1997 ford explorer and the dome light in the very back where the hatchback is wont go off and the front seat dome light wont come on.....help, I just bought this today and it needs fixed tonight.

Thanks for any help fixing this issue.

Reply #7 silvereagle (97.141.173.174) - Wed Jul 15 06:35:41 2009

Had a problem with interior lights not turning off.Problem was the rear hatch not being closed tight enough.Close the door harder and out goes the lights.

Reply #8 jim (75.53.90.245) - Thu Aug 27 00:06:07 2009

Also you might want to check the interior light switch to make sure it is not push all the way up. it turns on the dome and rear light when all the doors are closed. took me an hour to figure that out.

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