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Car Forum / Ford / Ford Explorer / March 200799' Explorer
Hi everyone, my interior lights stopped working when I open driver or any other door. I can manually turn them on but not by open the doors. Any ideas what could cause this? Thanks in advance Tino Possibly GEM or interior lamp relay (you have checked the fuses, right?). The door switches tell the Generic Electronic Module that a door is open and the GEM controls any necessary outputs. > Hi everyone, > my interior lights stopped working when I open driver or any other door. > I can manually turn them on but not by open the doors. Any ideas what > could cause this? > Thanks in advance > Tino Yes , I checked fuses on side of the instrumental panel but all were OK. Are you saying that GEM may be bad,or? . > Hi everyone, > my interior lights stopped working when I open driver or any other door. > I can manually turn them on but not by open the doors. Any ideas what > could cause this? > Thanks in advance > Tino It isn't unknown for the GEM to go bad.... but, since they are a tad spendy, I'd want to make sure I don't have a different concern (relay, wiring...). The GEM can be accessed using an appropriate scan tool (sorry, the AutoZone scanner just wont cut it)... it can be polled for trouble codes and the tech can also use it to tell the GEM to activate some of it's functions to help determine if the concern is with an input or an output. > Yes , I checked fuses on side of the instrumental panel but all were OK. > Are you saying that GEM may be bad,or? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> Thanks in advance >> Tino Thanks Jim, seems I have to do some more reasearch or read the repair manual, unless someone else had similar problem and wants to share with us Dosio > It isn't unknown for the GEM to go bad.... but, since they are a tad > spendy, I'd want to make sure I don't have a different concern (relay, [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >>> Thanks in advance >>> Tino |
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