[V8] interior light delay

[Roger M. Woodbury]

I am pondering the arrival of spring. At least I think it is coming at 
some point.  I started the V8 up last weekend. It's been on a battery 
maintainer all winter and it came right to life, of course. I have 
started to make a wish list of things that I need to do to put the car 
back on the road this spring, if indeed I decide to do that.  One thing 
I really want to do that is a simple fix, is get the inside light delay 
fixed.  It stopped working some years ago and I noticed the interior 
door switch's rubber boot was torn. So I replaced that, but still the 
interior light delay was inop.  What happens is the interior dome and 
foot well lights do not light when the door is opened.  I suspect this 
is a relay, and I think this has been discussed some years ago, but I 
thought I'd ask to see if anyone on this list remembers or knows right 
off the top of their head, WHICH relay controls the interior light delay 
and where it is located.

I am also VERY disappointed that the headliner in the rear has started 
to sag a bit this winter.  It isn't serious, but it is disappointing as 
up to the time I put the car into the barn for the winter, it was up and 
tight.  Very annoying, but typical, I guess.  Fixing it is somewhat down 
the road, I think as the sag is mostly noticable by me.

I am also going to have to do the tires this spring I think. It's really 
time as the Michelins that are on the car are about at the end of their 
usable life.  I have NO idea what I will get for the car this time, but 
I have been using Altimax's on the station wagon and have found them 
pretty decent for the price. I doubt the V8 will actually see much more 
than thirty five hundred miles from mid-April to December when I would 
put the car back in the barn for winter.  Yet another reason why I am 
pondering not keeping the car at all.  On the basis of 3500 miles a year 
with seasonal use only, it's getting pretty expensive to just hold 
onto.  But I've said that before also.

Then there are the heated seats that I would like to have working in a 
perfect world and I think if I end up taking the car to the shop for the 
headliner, I'll get the seats pulled apart and the heating elements 
repaired. The seat heaters are mostly for my wife's back, and even in 
the summer she uses them on occasion.

That's near the end of the long list for this car, although a new 
windshield will need to be installed before it will pass inspection. 
That will be an insurance issue, as the split stems from a small ping I 
got going through a construction zone driving it back from the shop 
after the last oil change last fall.  Tiny ping that just spread this 
winter.

So, if anyone knows about the dimmer relay, I'll get that done as soon 
as the snow  has melted enough to roll the car out of the garage for a 
sunbath.




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