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(Message started by: Mummra on Mar 8^th, 2006, 10:27pm)

Title: Glove Box Light
Post by Mummra on Mar 8^th, 2006, 10:27pm

Hi this may seem a strange question, but should there be a light in the glove box. I have 2 Scorpios and neither has a light in the glove box, but they both have a door switch, so I am a little confused.

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by djmutters69 on Mar 9^th, 2006, 12:10am

Yes there is a bulb which sits in the top of the switch unit.
Open the glovebox and where the switch sits in the surround you'll see a small hole where you can insert a thin screwdriver to prise the switch out.

Do be careful as the wiring to this is easily broken/detached!

The bulb sits in the other end of the switch unit.

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by Mummra on Mar 9^th, 2006, 7:35am

Thanks, I shall have a look at that later.

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by Mummra on Mar 9^th, 2006, 6:34pm

Spot on thanks. I got the switch out and replaced the bulb, working lovely now.

Just one thing though should there just be a gaping hole behind the switch for the light to shine through or am I missing a perspex cover of some kind?

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by mr._floppy on Mar 9^th, 2006, 7:37pm

Nope, I spent 20 minutes looking for the lens till someone told me the bulb and switch were a single unit. ::)

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by Octavian_P on Mar 9^th, 2006, 8:00pm

Take care with the glovebox light, mine had a burnt bulb, but after changeing it, it was always on, so it could discharge your battery

Cheers

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by Mummra on Mar 9^th, 2006, 8:17pm

Wow thanks for the advice, I am going to check that now, don't fancy a flat battery in the morning.

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by Octavian_P on Mar 9^th, 2006, 8:28pm

I have checked it on daylight and was pretty hard to tell if it was on or off, so i did it geek style, i have put may camcorder on rec, put it in the glovebox and shut the door. So this is how i found it was light inside when it shoud not ;D. A possible cure i think it shoud be something related with the hinges or the contact itself, but i use the glovebox so rare that i forgot about it ;D

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by Mummra on Mar 9^th, 2006, 8:47pm

What can I say, top tip thanks. Just checked the glove box and the light was staying on, easier to spot at night that is for sure. It is such a marginal thing, touch the door and the light goes out, so I have fitted a stick on foam pad to the door where it hits the switch and thyis has cured the problem.

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by Octavian_P on Mar 9^th, 2006, 9:03pm

I'm glad you didn't get a flat battery. ;)

Cheers

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by mr._floppy on Mar 9^th, 2006, 9:12pm

Would a 5 watt blub left on for 12 hours discharge a healthy battery ? ???

Goddammit, these type of riddles keep me awake at night :-[

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by Octavian_P on Mar 9^th, 2006, 9:26pm

A healthy battery in 12 hours don't thnik so, but there is also the PATS, the alarm...and so on. And if a bulb staies so long on it could melt the plastic socket and make a shorcircuit....now that can be real rude.

Now can you sleep ? ;D

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by djmutters69 on Mar 9^th, 2006, 11:15pm

I didn't have the problem of the light not going out, but used a LED bulb anyway (just incase someone left the glove box open!) - extremely low current drawn, thought I'd better be on the safe side!

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by Malcolm B on Mar 10^th, 2006, 7:15pm

just replaced my bulb-its on the back of the switch . prize the switch out and the bulb comes with it.

Title: Re: Glove Box Light
Post by Mummra on Mar 10^th, 2006, 9:30pm

I feel I must point out a 5W bulb @ 12V will draw 0.4A per hour, which over a 12 hour period will be equivalent to running the stereo for about 3 hrs and if I wonder how many would do that too often.