Cabin Lights - Rear Doors

JPT · Oct 28, 2017

I wasn’t able to find this through search.

When you open the rear doors, do the interior lights come on? Right now, the lights only come on when I open the front doors, making it difficult to load cargo in the back.

Thanks

ckeefer58 · Oct 28, 2017

Yep they should definitely come on. Do they not come on for both rear doors or only one?

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Salsa · Oct 28, 2017

Mine come on with just the rear doors. Have checked the position of the roller switches on the dash to see if that's an issue?

JPT · Oct 28, 2017

My inside lights come on when you unlock the doors. After they shut off, the interior lights only come on when you open the front doors.

I don’t believe it is a illuminating dial setting, because the front doors trigger the interior lights.

Thanks

EDIT: Just checked. The passenger side rear door triggers the lights, the passenger side doesn’t.

averageguy · Oct 28, 2017

I've had a couple rangers that the interior lights wouldn't go off with the doors shut. The switch is built into the latch. I sprayed it with WD-40 and used a screw driver in place of the latch post to close it (or I would have to open and close the door a hundred times) and opened with the handle and resprayed it and it freed up and let the light go out. Maybe the ram is the same and the switch is stuck not letting the light come on? Or its bad? These are my best 2 guesses.

JPT · Oct 28, 2017

Thanks.

I had some body work done on that side, the shop is going to open it back up and check if the harness wasn’t reconnected, or we will replace the switch while it is open.

ckeefer58 · Oct 29, 2017

Yeah the harness can be an issue on the rear doors. Does the lock in that door work?

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Salsa · Oct 29, 2017

averageguy said:
I've had a couple rangers that the interior lights wouldn't go off with the doors shut. The switch is built into the latch. I sprayed it with WD-40 and used a screw driver in place of the latch post to close it (or I would have to open and close the door a hundred times) and opened with the handle and resprayed it and it freed up and let the light go out. Maybe the ram is the same and the switch is stuck not letting the light come on? Or its bad? These are my best 2 guesses.

I had the same thing happen to me. That's when I realized that when I turned on the headlights (rotary dial) that I bumped the dimmer switch just below it enough to turn them on all the time. I turned the dial back a hair and all was fixed.

JPT · Oct 29, 2017

ckeefer58 said:
Yeah the harness can be an issue on the rear doors. Does the lock in that door work?

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Yes, everything works except the lights don’t come on for that door only.

akennedyusmc · Oct 29, 2017

This same problem I had in my 08. Passenger rear door wouldn't get power for window, or trigger lights to go on. Turned out the wire harness had a couple wires that came undone. All I had to do was solder them back together.
Hopefully that's not the same scenario since yours is only a '15 lol just something else to check

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