ok so a couple of days ago my interior light started not turning off with the door closed it tried manually pushing the switches in and they still wont turn off i cant have my car running out of juice all the time what can i do temporarily and long term?

check and make share your interior light switch is turned off. happens a lot. pull out the door switch and see if the light goes out. check the grounds

Check your dimmer "wheel" on the headlight switch.

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Also check your BATT fuse.

Switch itself could also be bad.

Kevin

this happened after i blew a headlight fuse but all is fine with the headlights now just this...

was the BATT fuse okay ?

is that a special fuse outside of the fuse box? check all of em in the fuse box and they are all good now

It is the 20 amp at 3 over and 3 down. Sorry, only has one T.....anyway, there is a bakfeed issue on the Fiero if this fuse is bad the interior lights will stay on. You made sure the dimmer wheel wasnt all the way in the on position too right ?

the dimmer isnt on and that fuse is fine just tried another fuse there to be sure and still same thing

Do you know what made the headlight fuse blow in the first place ?

on the inst lp on my fuse box it has a 10 in it but i know ive never replaced it so it has to have been like this for over a year could that affect anything?

It shouldnt, but may have caused something else to burn...i doubt it.

If you cant find the problem you should be able to pull the CTSY/LID fuse to turn it off till you track the problem down. It will take power from your decklid release if you have one.

took it out but the floor/ fusebox light is still on

Sounds like you do have a backfeed issue going on somewhere. I am out of ideas for you to look at other then trying to find and check grounds in the lighting circuit.

I would start pulling 1 fuse at a time until the light goes out. That'll get you started on the circuit that's giving the problem. I had the same problem a couple of years ago. Either the overhead light was on, or the courtesy floor lamps were on. Couldn't get them both to go off at the same time. Don't remember what the fix was, but it was fuse related.

First, roll the instrument panel dimmer wheel all the way down, then with the doors closed, start pushing the overhead buttons. Also, something comes to mind about the right front headlight motor relay. Try unplugging it. It's the square one on the side of the headlight mechanism.

[This message has been edited by fierofool (edited 02-10-2010).]

Courtesy/footlights Option car.

see Cave. Sneak path.
Blown fuse at Bat Or Ctsy/Lid will do it.

Any car... Option above or not.

Bad door jam switch.
Bad dimmer switch.

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