[s-cars] Interior courtesy lights

[Tom Green]

You should feel lucky if that is the only result from fooling around  
with a weak battery.  Many problems that result from that behavior are  
more significant.  Probably locking and unlocking the car with the  
remote will re-sync things but as for the actual cause I don't really  
know.  Just knowing to avoid the issue is enough for me.


On Saturday November 17, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Jay M <jaybird002 at msn.com>  
wrote:

> S Heads, This is not a big deal to me but it is just puzzling me. I  
> am curious to know what's going on (or not going on in this case)  
> and if anybody else has experienced this before. One of my UrS6 cars  
> has been suffering from a weak battery. Today I went to the car to  
> start it, opened the driver door. The front dome-light by sunroof  
> control illuminated as it should in addition to the two lights over  
> each rear door. I started to crank the engine. The engine cranked  
> about 3-4 times before the battery lost cranking power. I hooked up  
> battery charger and charged for a couple hours. After charging I  
> opened the driver door and noticed that none of the interior lights  
> lit up as before. I moved the 3 way toggle switch for the front  
> light by the sunroof control and moved it all the way forward  
> towards the front of the car and light turned on (as it should in  
> this position). Moved switch to the middle off position and light  
> did not come on (this is normal). I moved the switch all the
> way back towards the rear of the car (this is the position the  
> switch was in before and allows the lights to turn on when the door  
> is opened and turns off after approximately 20 second delay or when  
> key turns over ignition) and the light does not come on as it should  
> with the door opened. Both lights above the rear doors expereience  
> the same symptoms and the lights don't come on when any of the four  
> doors are opened. I thought maybe the plunger switches that are  
> located in the door jambs may be sticky so I jiggled them around to  
> no avail. I don't think it is a fuse because all the lights work  
> when the switch turns them on but none of them work when the  
> switches are in the position for them to turn on when the doors are  
> open. Any ideas? Thanks.
> ******

Tom '95 S6
          '95.5 S6 avant
Knoxville, TN