Door ajar light
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Door ajar light
The door ajar light on my 97 Expi stays on most of the time. This of course causes my interior lights to stay on, which also causes my battery to run down. I make sure all doors are closed which sometimes doesn't cure the problem. Does anyone have any ideas, on what I can do to correct this???
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Originally Posted by tb0530
The door ajar light on my 97 Expi stays on most of the time. This of course causes my interior lights to stay on, which also causes my battery to run down. I make sure all doors are closed which sometimes doesn't cure the problem. Does anyone have any ideas, on what I can do to correct this???
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Yep, Same for my 98. Just hosed down all of the latch mechanisms and solved the problem. Good Luck!
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Am I to understand this correctly....The door pins are located in the actual latches and not seperately on the door panels or columns. I have looked high and low and cannot find them. So all I need to do is to spray the actual latch inside and that should solve the issue. I have a 97 that has been doing this for about a year and I just have gotten used to shutting down things a certain way, lol. All of this after I have been through two batteries as a result of it.
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Am I to understand this correctly....The door pins are located in the actual latches and not seperately on the door panels or columns. I have looked high and low and cannot find them. So all I need to do is to spray the actual latch inside and that should solve the issue. After going through two batteries on my 97 expy, I had just accepted defeat on this and have gotten used to a certain way of shutting down the engine these days, lol.
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The mechanisms are as you describe. It's all in the latch assem. So just spray into the latch with the nozzle extension tube liberally and wipe down anexcess that runs out. That should do it. I have had to do it twice since Iwe bought our 98 and it's worked great. Hopefully this is all you'll need to do. Good luck!
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I'm a believer!!! It has been 4 days since since I sprayed with WD-40. Not a problem all week-end. I also had been dealing with this for about a year, I even started pulling the fuse, that operates my interior lights everytime I was going to be parked for a while. I got tired of doing this, so I hinted to my son at Christmas, that I would like to have a battery charger for Christmas, so that I could keep it in my expi, in case I needed a instant boost. He listened and told his dad, and needless to say this was my Christmas present. Best present I could have gotten!!! Anyway...I highly recomend the WD-40!!!!!!! I don't know about ya'll, but my Expi is pushing 200,000 miles, and I have to get at least another year or so out of it, so I really appreciate this forum, for solving little minor things like this. I can't thank ya'll, enough!!!!
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Amen to the battery charger...I bought one last year too and it has saved my butt on more than one occasion, lol. I am in construction and MANY times out in the boondocks of North Carolina after quitting time and to get ready to leave at the end of the day only to find a dead battery cause of the damn lights staying on. Thanks to everybody for the great advice. And to you tb0530, I am pushing 220,000 on my 97 expi and need to get another year of it as well.
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Hey, great to hear everything has worked out. This is a great site and I have learned a lot from all of the folks on here. It's also been nice to help others with things i have encountered. It's pretty cool to be able to solve a problem. Good luck with your EX.