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Interior light and ignition switch
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<blockquote data-quote="Stephen Abel" data-source="post: 1031530" data-attributes="member: 73772"><p>No, mostly French, Chinese, Filipino and Polish.</p><p></p><p>Let me try again for you who cannot read chinglish.</p><p></p><p>It the steering column, were the key goes in, (you still with me?) there is a connection that gets made to turn on the interior light when you put the key in and turn it. Ok so far? The interior light is supposed to go off, based on a timer or moving the transmission out of park. However, that connection is faulty and a bump in the road will cause the switch , still in the steering column, to allow the interior light to come on. Wiggling the key (used to open the doors and start the truck) will turn the interior light off. </p><p></p><p>Sometimes when starting the truck, the interior light will not go off and pushing on the key will make a contact in the switch still in the afformentioned steering column and allow the interior light to go off but...releasing pressure on the key will allow the switch to make and the light comes back on. Got it? </p><p></p><p>So what parts, do I need and how hard is it to fix?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stephen Abel, post: 1031530, member: 73772"] No, mostly French, Chinese, Filipino and Polish. Let me try again for you who cannot read chinglish. It the steering column, were the key goes in, (you still with me?) there is a connection that gets made to turn on the interior light when you put the key in and turn it. Ok so far? The interior light is supposed to go off, based on a timer or moving the transmission out of park. However, that connection is faulty and a bump in the road will cause the switch , still in the steering column, to allow the interior light to come on. Wiggling the key (used to open the doors and start the truck) will turn the interior light off. Sometimes when starting the truck, the interior light will not go off and pushing on the key will make a contact in the switch still in the afformentioned steering column and allow the interior light to go off but...releasing pressure on the key will allow the switch to make and the light comes back on. Got it? So what parts, do I need and how hard is it to fix? [/QUOTE]
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