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interior lights randomly don not turn on when opening the doors at night?

Old Oct 19, 2021 | 07:31 AM
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Default interior lights randomly don not turn on when opening the doors at night?

I have a 15 tradesman that ive been having this issue with since I bought it. Sometimes the interior dome and map lights turn on and sometimes they dont? doesnt matter which door is being opened. Anyone have any input on this?
 
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Old Oct 22, 2021 | 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Augiedoggy
I have a 15 tradesman that ive been having this issue with since I bought it. Sometimes the interior dome and map lights turn on and sometimes they dont? doesnt matter which door is being opened. Anyone have any input on this?
Hi Augiedoggy,
We certainly understand why this may be concerning. We kindly recommend having your dealer inspect this concern for you as they are in the best position to assist.

Rob
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Old Oct 24, 2021 | 04:10 PM
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I have the schematics for a 2017, probably the same.
I uploaded the schematics, hope you can get them
 
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Old Oct 30, 2021 | 11:49 AM
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just to update folks who might be looking for the solution... I believe I found the problem to be the fact that a previous owner put an LED dome light in the truck and the Can bus system in the vehicle is intermittently seeing it. I have done some searching on the web and found a number of people have had the same results as me after switching to led interior bulbs. I intend on going back to a stock dome light bulb
 
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Old Nov 9, 2021 | 09:45 AM
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So just as a followup, installing regular bulbs in the interior map and dome lights corrected the issue.
 
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