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I have a 92 Explorer EB and the dome lights do not come on when I open any of my doors. I have checked every fuze, all are good, I have also taken out all of the door pin switches, all have tested good and all wires have power running to them. I can turn the lights on with the light switch, the map lights have no problem. Does anyone know anything I may be missing? Is there a switch in the hatch?
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check the light itself...it gets power by the screws that mount it...one for power one ground one to hold it all up...the power ( i believe is the one closest to the front of truck the ground is on pass side. if something is messed up there that will do it. also try to CAREFULLY pull the plunger out of the door to see if it works and is getting power etc... check fuse box? or power box under hood? for blown fuses.
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Greetings all. I have the same problem with my '94 XLT 4 door.
I tried the suggestion with the dome light - no luck. Mine started with the drivers' door being the only one that wouldn't work, then a week later the rest stopped working. I swapped the two left side door switches when just the drivers door didn't work, with no luck. I looked over the schematic from the Hayne's manual, could make sense of it once I copied and pasted the two parts together. I'm not really looking forward to tearing this truck apart to trace the wiring, but it seems like that's where I'm headed. Anybody got any other suggestions????
Thanks much..............
I tried the suggestion with the dome light - no luck. Mine started with the drivers' door being the only one that wouldn't work, then a week later the rest stopped working. I swapped the two left side door switches when just the drivers door didn't work, with no luck. I looked over the schematic from the Hayne's manual, could make sense of it once I copied and pasted the two parts together. I'm not really looking forward to tearing this truck apart to trace the wiring, but it seems like that's where I'm headed. Anybody got any other suggestions????
Thanks much..............
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I dont know about older explorers but on my 2000 there is a small black cylinder attached to the door in the crack between door and frame where all the wire for power windows power locks speaker etc goes. on top of the black cylinder is a small bolt if it is loose some stuff may not work just give it a couple of turns.
I know it sounds weird but not too long ago my power windows speaker and door dinger quit working i tightened that bolt and everythings fine.
I know it sounds weird but not too long ago my power windows speaker and door dinger quit working i tightened that bolt and everythings fine.
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Greetings all. I fixed mine over the weekend. Here's what I did:
1) Remove the left side door sill plate - One plate for both doors plus the lower portion of the "B" Pillar.
2) Move the carpet out of the way at the REAR door.
3) Open the wiring channel and remove the wiring harness.
4) Gently remove the taping and find the splice with 6 wires - wire color will be light green with a yellow stripe - splice will be about 3" long, black, about the diameter of a pencil. There will be 3 wires on either side of the splice.
5) If you haven't done so already, disconnect the battery.
6) Gently cut the splice open. If wires start falling off, here's your problem.
7) Strip back all the wires. Now you'll have two groups of three that won't meet each other. I used a short piece of 12 gauge wire
to join them. I soldered the connections, then used wire nuts and lots of electricians tape.
8) Hook the battery back up and if you're lucky the inside lights will work again. Also, my "key in the ignition" dinger is working better than it has in years!
Hope this helps!
1) Remove the left side door sill plate - One plate for both doors plus the lower portion of the "B" Pillar.
2) Move the carpet out of the way at the REAR door.
3) Open the wiring channel and remove the wiring harness.
4) Gently remove the taping and find the splice with 6 wires - wire color will be light green with a yellow stripe - splice will be about 3" long, black, about the diameter of a pencil. There will be 3 wires on either side of the splice.
5) If you haven't done so already, disconnect the battery.
6) Gently cut the splice open. If wires start falling off, here's your problem.
7) Strip back all the wires. Now you'll have two groups of three that won't meet each other. I used a short piece of 12 gauge wire
to join them. I soldered the connections, then used wire nuts and lots of electricians tape.
8) Hook the battery back up and if you're lucky the inside lights will work again. Also, my "key in the ignition" dinger is working better than it has in years!
Hope this helps!
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New twist to my orignal post. Was going down the road the other day and my radio went out and tring to fix it that night I went to turn on my dome light to see and I had no light. Now along with the dome not working with the doors it does not work at all. I went in to fix my radio and found out that the memory wire did not work (which might explain why my dome lights don't work), I jumped the memory wire off the cigarette lighter and to my suprise my radio worked and also my dome light came back on.
Now I heard from some one that if you change the radio (which I have) that could cause the lights not to work and that you need to buy a special adapter from Ford in order to get the lights to work. Has anyone heard of this? When I had got my Explorer it did not have a factory radio but it was profressonally installed.
Now I heard from some one that if you change the radio (which I have) that could cause the lights not to work and that you need to buy a special adapter from Ford in order to get the lights to work. Has anyone heard of this? When I had got my Explorer it did not have a factory radio but it was profressonally installed.
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