Immobilizer and Bulb Questions..One More Try..Success
04-14-2010, 12:02 PM
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Excellent! Having disassembled my glove box a few times, it didn't seem that the polarity of the bulb holder connections mattered (i.e. you could put the connectors on either terminal), but clearly it does. Guess I just got lucky when reassembling. 
Good to know! Thanks for sharing your results,
- Dave
Good to know! Thanks for sharing your results,
- Dave
The previous owner had wired the pair of connectors intended for the switch to the lamp holder, and those for the lampholder to the switch.. Easy enough to do, I suppose, as the function appears to be normal. That is, the light in the glovebox turns on and off as apppropriate. What it did, however, was to prevent the immoblizer controller from seeing a voltage signal when the lamp was turned off.
An easy was to make sure you are correct is to make sure the spade connector with two wires crimped together is connected to the lamp holder. If you get that correct, everything else will fall into place.
