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Omega Help Area => Omega Electrical and Audio Help => Topic started by: skidado on 13 October 2009, 11:19:14
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'98 2.0L CDX manual.
Recently (about 6 months ago) I noticed that the alarm to warn of lights left on stopped working. At about the same time, I noticed that the doors would not 'dead-lock' from the key fob (press once to lock - ok; press again to dead-lock - no joy).
Last weekend, I had to change a brake light bulb, and immediatedly the alarm started working again, as did the dead-lock. This lasted only until this morning when both have stopped again.
Any ideas? Bad earth somewhere? I don't want to leave this too long as these kind of problems have a habit of getter worse rather than better.
Thanks in advance
David
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would check the fuse's, or the earth from the battery, may be just a bad connection or corroded, :y
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Could it be something to do with door switches, does the interior courtesy light still go on/off ?
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Pop the drivers door courtesy light switch out and clean the earth ring. You'll find if the drivers door puddle light doesn't come on it won't deadlock.
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Aha! You're right - the puddle lights don't always come on! (I assume this is the white lights on the inside door card).
I'll clean the switches and report back later...
Thanks!
New edit - Crikey, you blokes are good! Opened the door, prodded the switch in the A pillar a couple of times and the puddle lights came on. Closed door and the double lock work! Yippee!
Now I'm locking and buzzing willy-nilly! ;D
Will fix them properly when I can get hold of the proper torx tool.
Thanks again
David