How do I get my dome light working again?

billm0066 · Post by **billm0066** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:50 pm

Swap is done and car is running good (besides the damn control arm bolts). My dome light does not work. I read a post that nighthawk wrote about the door ajar being different. Can anyone be a little more specific? I would like to take care of this tomorrow.

BTW no cel codes. My abs and airbag lights are on though. Who needs them though

Lastly my control arm bolt on the driver side would not move (on my 01 r/t). We soaked it in wd40, took a torch to it, used a breaker bar and it wont budge. The passenger side is kind of messed up. You can loosen it about 1/4 of a turn then its impossible to move again. We were afraid to keep trying and snap it off. I dont even know how you could fix something like that if it broke. Im taking it an auto repair shop tomorrow to see what they say. I want the srt control arms in, but I would settle for them fixing the passenger side to stop the clunk I get when I hit the gas hard in first gear.

datadave49 · Post by **datadave49** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:02 am

Hey Hey
first I need to know what year your body is.Your dome light will not work with the srt rear harness because the newer door has everything going into the door like your power windows we are trying to work it out so they work but we are just getting better from getting our back fixed as soon as I get it work out I will post it here.if you have a service manaul for both the srt and your body year to see what is deffrent
Dave

Adam K. · Post by **Adam K.** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:55 pm

I had the same issue when I did my swap at first. I remember tapping into a thin pink wire. It's been a real long time and I have swapped in a SRT-4 Dash harness in since but look at the pink wire coming out of the 3 connectors under the dash. You should see that on one side there is nothing going to it so the done light gets no power if I remember correctly.

datadave49 · Post by **datadave49** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:30 am

Adam K. wrote:I had the same issue when I did my swap at first. I remember tapping into a thin pink wire. It's been a real long time and I have swapped in a SRT-4 Dash harness in since but look at the pink wire coming out of the 3 connectors under the dash. You should see that on one side there is nothing going to it so the done light gets no power if I remember correctly.

Hay Hay
If you still have your stock harness look at the driver door that should be a brown wire and the other are a blue wire with a tracer but I am not sure of the tracer color if it get warm this week we might get to it
dAVE

billm0066 · Post by **billm0066** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:45 pm

I will tackle this in the next couple of weeks. Right now I need to get my control arms situation taken care of, install the side skirts, put in the original springs, and then I should have time for it.

SuperRT · Post by **SuperRT** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:21 pm

I tapped the solid pink wire under the carpet running along the drivers side, fed it 12v through a switch mounted under the dash.

I never did like the stock operation of the light anyway.

This pink wire also supplies power to the trunk light, but only comes on when the trunk is open and my switch is on.

billm0066 · Post by **billm0066** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:19 pm

I didnt swap the srt-4 dash harness. I kept the 01 r/t harness, but swapped the srt-4 body, trunk, and engine/bay harnesses. How does the r/t tell when the doors are opened. How does the srt-4 tell if the doors are open? I want to get mine working again, and I dont want a separate switch to turn it on. I want my dome light to turn on when I open the doors.

What do I tap the pink wire into? I will post a writeup with pics if I can get this working.

Post by **occasional demons** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:05 pm

If the SRT/RT are the same as the rest of the Neons, the dome is activated by the door latch, the same way the trunk light is via the trunk latch. The warning chime for the lights/key in is also tied to the latches.
Edit: as far as the control arms, there is no real advantage to the srt's. IIRC there is a sticky somewhere comparing them. Did you have any luck with getting them off yet?

billm0066 · Post by **billm0066** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:33 pm

Yeah I got the stock ones off and the srt ones on with new ball joints and bushings.

Im going to try and get this worked out this week.

datadave49 · Post by **datadave49** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:13 pm

Hey Hey
We have not check it out yet but we got some srt door wires for both door we are going to have the motor check out this friday to make sure that every thing is good .after that we will try to swap the door wires
Dave

Blackyblack · Post by **Blackyblack** » Sun May 25, 2008 2:04 pm

I spliced into the pink wire under the driver side kick panel & ran a piece of 4 ft wire from that up to the driver side windshield pillar , under it there is about 3 black wires & all have color stripe on them , I taped the black/purple & the dome light works , my neon is a 2000 so I don't know if the wire is in all years or not but it's easy to check & see.

datadave49 · Post by **datadave49** » Sun May 25, 2008 8:54 pm

Hey Hey
We will give it a try soon do you have the fob if you do does it lock the car I do but it does not work another thing to find out why
Dave

Blackyblack · Post by **Blackyblack** » Mon May 26, 2008 5:56 pm

datadave49 wrote:Hey Hey
We will give it a try soon do you have the fob if you do does it lock the car I do but it does not work another thing to find out why
Dave

Yes & mine works fine unlock & locks the doors , I don't think that has anything to do with your dome light though , good luck.

datadave49 · Post by **datadave49** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:59 pm

Hey Hey
We work on our AC and got it working and I don't know what we did but the dome light works works when the door is open and when you hit the power locks and last it come on hen you turn it on from the head light switch Boy am I happy
Dave

billm0066 · Post by **billm0066** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:57 pm

datadave49 wrote:Hey Hey
We work on our AC and got it working and I don't know what we did but the dome light works works when the door is open and when you hit the power locks and last it come on hen you turn it on from the head light switch Boy am I happy
Dave

Dave you have to use some periods. I have a hard time reading your posts man.

datadave49 · Post by **datadave49** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:58 pm

billm0066 wrote:
datadave49 wrote:Hey Hey
We work on our AC and got it working and I don't know what we did but the dome light works works when the door is open and when you hit the power locks and last it come on hen you turn it on from the head light switch Boy am I happy
Dave
Dave you have to use some periods. I have a hard time reading your posts man.

Hey Hey
Yea I Know we got a pass for shop class that why no periods lol

billm0066 · Post by **billm0066** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:05 pm

Im finally going to mess with it tonight. Ive put it off long enough. Im tired of not being able to see when I get in the car at night. If anyone else has had to correct this problem please chime in. If I get it to work I will post how I did it.

datadave49 · Post by **datadave49** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:18 pm

Hey Hey
I don't know why but every thing works just fine and from what I have herd even if you change out all of the harness like I did you will still lose the dome light but mine works LOL
Dave

billm0066 · Post by **billm0066** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:38 pm

Blackyblack wrote:I spliced into the pink wire under the driver side kick panel & ran a piece of 4 ft wire from that up to the driver side windshield pillar , under it there is about 3 black wires & all have color stripe on them , I taped the black/purple & the dome light works , my neon is a 2000 so I don't know if the wire is in all years or not but it's easy to check & see.

Thank you so much. I just tried this and it worked. 20 minutes and now I have a dome light again

Thanks again!

datadave49 wrote:Hey Hey
I don't know why but every thing works just fine and from what I have herd even if you change out all of the harness like I did you will still lose the dome light but mine works LOL
Dave

Dave seriously use some periods. Your posts are impossible to read. Not trying to be mean, but I actually skip your posts on this forum because I have a hard time reading them.