atb

I got my hatch mechanism to work by adjusting the lower mechanism all the way up, and putting a rubber strip (cut section from a rubber hose) on the trailing edge of the upper latch to cant it forward.

Hatch works great but my dome lights stay on .

Any ideas on what I can do to get the dome light switch in the hatch latch to actuate?

Rod Underwood

Can you get it - the switch - to work manualy? That will tell you if you have a bad switch, or if it's actually an adjustment problem. These are fun to chase down.

Rod

atb

Hi Rod,

The dome lights functioned properly up until I got my hatch release to work last night, so I'm thinking (hoping) that by adjusting the latch mechanism I somehow got the dome light switch out of whack to where it's not cutting the circuit when closed. But your right, I'll check it manually just to make sure.

Alan

Adam - it may have disintegrated - short term fix - pull the wire off the connector at the bottom. The switch is a normally open (with hatch closed) and closed only with hatch open. It just grounds the brown/white wire.

Its kind of an "open air switch" - you can pretty much see how it operates plunger & contact plate with spring, sometimes the spring breaks, sometimes the shaft breaks... usually when it shorts out you need to replace something... since you were adjusting things - maybe not...

Alan