Strange dilemma that started last week. I shut the driver door and the interior lights won't go out. Checked all doors, hood and tailgate. All shut. If I reach in an manually turn off the interior lights with the button in the overhead console, they go out but when I shut the driver door the lights stay on in the instrument cluster and the display screen. I cannot lock the door with the remote, it beeps twice. This is a weird one. All ideas and thoughts welcomed as usual. Thx! Mike

could be,
dodgy bonnet [hood] switch ,
the doors not registered shut,
remote batterys flat,
FF battery low. ... - .- -.




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Check Stan's list first then add check Light Control Module on the end Sounds like it may be duff sir

Hi Mike, I have had this happen a couple of times during the last 12 months. I got round it by locking the car using the drivers door key instead of the remote. Leave it a couple of minutes and then unlock with the remote and all is fine.

Cheers,

Andy SDV8 AB MY 2019
SDV8 VSE MY 2015 - Gone
5.0 S/C AB MY 2010 - Gone
4.2 S/C VSE MY 2006 - Gone

Thanks all! I had a problem a few weeks ago where I locked the key in the car with the engine running. When I went to use the spare key shank the button would not pop up fully until after about an hour of playing with it. I sprayed some wd-40 down
the hole where the button is and haven't had a problem till last week. Will try all suggested ideas! Thx!! Mike

Understanding more about this. My wife has a 2008 FFRR and the interior lights I believe are programable. Her lights turn off 2 seconds after the door is closed. The interior lights on my 2011 FFRR turn off after 1 minute and the dash cluster lights turn off another 2 min after that. I don't believe the interior lights are programable on my 2011. When the battery went dead a few weeks ago, I jump started it and it was fine for awhile but when I left it for 5 days the battery was dead again. Apparently after jump starting a dead battery, the battery will never charge up to "fully charged" by just driving it around. It has to be charged with a battery charger which is what I did yesterday and hopefully this will solve the problem. M

Back to square one. Gremlins in my electrical system. The service advisor at my dealer told me to lock the car after I put it in the garage to completely shut down the system. I did last night and after 15 minutes the alarm went off. Hit "unlock" with the remoter key fob and then "lock" again and 40 min later the alarm went off. Hit unlock again and when I went to check on it awhile later, interior lights were off but the cluster light was showing "Battery low" Start Engine"???? and the cluster light never went dark completely but was very faintly lit. Probably now going to have to make 7 hr roundtrip to dealer! But I still love my car!!

have you checked the bonnet switch, if you're not sure its ok or not then disconnect it. ... - .- -.




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Got back from there dealer yesterday (7 hr round trip). It was the dash cluster light. It was not turning off all the
way when the car was switched off and draining the battery. They had to re-program the module?? and reset it to zero??
Anyway, its fixed. These electrical faults are a real pain!! Thx for all your help comments in trying to track down the problem! Mike

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Spoke to soon! Wouldn't start again this am. battery dead. Being trailered to dealer this time….sigh. I love my
car but this is starting to get to me!

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Now the issue seems to be the dash/cluster light. It is not turning off all the way when the ignition is turned off. You can see a faint glow when all is shut down. Not sure how they fix that. Am having it trailered this time to dealer. Thank god its still under warranty!