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The lights in the back of the centre console and the rear pillars of my 67 are on as soon as i connect the battery and wont go off. It happened on Saturday out of the blue, the door switches on the pillars go in and out fine, is there a common thing i should look for?
Thanks all.
Russ.

Are they earthing out somewhere?

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May be, how would i check that? Im useless with electrics give me spanners and oil anyday!

I had this on my fourth gen and found it was the dimmer switch for the dash board lights if it was switched fully up it turned the interior lights on all the time. I had no idea it did this and took weeks to work out what I had done and kept removing the fuse in the interim... just a thought.

If I said does a First Gen have a dimmer would I sound totally stupid? Cant find anything wrong its driving me daft.

Hi Russ on your headlight switch dose it turn to the left or right if so twist it all the way (i think to the right) this should turn your interior lights off .it dose on a third gen (its so you can switch interior lights on and off manually )not sure if it dose on yours Cheers Neil

ill give it a whirl tonight thanks mate.

ye that should be it

From what i could see the 1st and 2nd gens use the same light switch mechanism. all the way to the left is off (default position), then if you twist to the right you'll feel it click and then the more you twist it the brighter the interior lights should come on. I would guess its maybe moved just past the click making it effectively off? I think that's the correct way round, been a while since any electrons have flowed around my 2nd gen

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Gents not only is there a definate sense of euphoria drifting through the garage this evening, youv'e saved casualty one more admission, and educated an electrically illiterate pertol head.

Thanks v much all, I could stab my own eyeballs, a week of pain and all I had to do was turn the bloody switch!!

Gota love those easy solutions glad its sorted and nothing serious that needs doin on it!
Think you've just stumbled on the CCUK mission statement:

"Keepin Casualty free from garage mishap victims and people goin nuts"

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